The labyrinth at the Illinois Math and Science Academy is based on a design found in an eleventh century manuscript from Abingdon, England, where it is described as a plan of the sevenfold heaven. Similar labyrinth illustrations were common in philosophical and mathematical manuscripts of the time. With six concentric paths, and seven walls, the path changes direction fourteen times before reaching the centre. Here you will find a golden spiral within a golden rectangle, created by the Fibonacci sequence, which is also coded in the outer borders of the labyrinth, along with the equivalent sequence of prime numbers.

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