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 ...

In 1202 Leonardo da Pisa (aka Fibonacci) taught Western Europe how to do arithmetic with Arabic numerals. In Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's... Though generations of schoolchildren have cursed arithmetic, ...

Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a grand unified theory of mathematics are among our choices for most ...

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 ...

A cartoon that explores Fibonacci numbers is coupled with a full-page activity sheet. Journal Information Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (MTMS) is an official peer-reviewed journal of the ...

The conference, which was held from July 1st to 7th, brought together people from all branches of mathematics and science to Dalhousie to discuss and learn about recurrence sequences, their ...

Mathematicians are celebrating November 23 because the date matches an important sequence of numbers. That’s right: Happy Fibonacci Day everyone. Starting with the numbers zero and one, the sequence ...

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 ...

You’ve no doubt heard the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." What if the beholder is a mathematician? How do these creatures see beauty differently than others? Are there patterns to ...

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