The Fibonacci Series, a set of numbers that increases rapidly, began as a medieval math joke about how fast rabbits breed. But it’s became a source of insight into art, architecture, nature, and ...

Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature ...

Artists and poets have long been inspired by the mathematical patterns found in nature—for instance, the remarkable fact that a sunflower's seeds follow the Fibonacci sequence. But there are myriad ...

Do you know what Fibonacci Day is? This holiday honors Leonardo Bonacci, also known as Fibonacci, one of the finest medieval mathematicians. Fibonacci is best known for writing Liber Abaci ("The Book ...

Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine. He covers topics such as renewable energy, climate change, and nature. One of the things that drove me to enroll back ...

No single number has been more celebrated than the Fibonacci sequence. Alternately kowtowed to as the Golden Ratio, the Divine Proportion, and That One Really Awesome Spiral, this famous number ...

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...