The Spiral of Theodorus
The Spiral of Theodorus
The spiral of Theodorus is a spiral constructed from a contiguous sequence of right-angled triangles. Each triangle in the sequence has height 1 and a base constructed from the hypotenuse of the previous triangle. The sequence starts with the unit-length isosceles triangle. It was first constructed by Theodorus of Cyrene and is also called square root spiral, Einstein spiral, or Pythagorean spiral.