I wasn't attracted to Dan Brown's 2003 bestseller The Da Vinci Code, but I gather that to decode "the code" you need a passing knowledge of the golden ratio and its mathematical mate the Fibonacci ...

OK, I won't try and explain any of this in detail since I don't understand it, either but we'll take a broad crack at it. So there's this mathematical phenomenon that appears throughout theory, ...

Have you ever heard of the Fibonacci sequence? Or the Golden Ratio? Or the Golden Spiral? These mysterious numbers and shapes are all connected to each other. If you look closely, they can be found in ...

It has long been observed that many plants produce leaves, shoots, or flowers in spiral patterns. Cauliflower provides a unique example of this phenomenon, because those spirals repeat at several ...

Trying variants of a simple mathematical rule that yields interesting results can lead to additional discoveries and curiosities. The numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, and 55 belong to a famous ...

While most 13-year-olds spend their free time playing video games or cruising Facebook, one 7th grader was trekking through the woods uncovering a mystery of science. After studying how trees branch ...

At first glance, the Fibonacci sequence might seem like no more than a bit of mathematical trickery. But look around, and it pops up again and again and again, in computer science and in nature. It’s ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Yarilet Perez is an experienced multimedia journalist and fact-checker with a ...

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 ...