It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

Who doesn’t love a good math holiday? Most people know about Pi Day (3/14), but there are even rarer days on the calendar ...

The Fibonacci sequence is a famous mathematical sequence where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. People claim there are many special properties about the numerical sequence, such as ...

Celebrate the simple mathematical sequence that is hidden in everything from sunflower spirals to Da Vinci's paintings ...

There's a reason I chose to be a naturalist. Calculus, physics, and statistics were never my friends. Fortunately, I was able to take a course titled Mathematics for Life Scientists. It was there I ...

A spruce cone is marked to highlight its fibonacci number sequence. That sequence, explained by 13th century Italian mathematician Fibonacci, plays out in plants — from pine cones to pineapples — and ...

What do pine cones and paintings have in common? A 13th-century Italian mathematician named Leonardo of Pisa. Better known by his pen name, Fibonacci, he came up with a number sequence that keeps ...