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 ...

The chambers in this nautilus shell graduate at a rate of 1.618, a number defined as a divine proportion since ancient times. Because pleasing proportions don't just happen, borrowing a few ...

The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up just one name–that of Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972). Many people are familiar with Escher’s endless staircases, hyperbolic ...

Their landmark result was published in 2012 in the Annals of Mathematics, widely considered the top journal in the field.It revealed the existence of staircase-like structures with infinitely many ...

A Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. Here, he uses the simple pattern of 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and 21.

The first five numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 1, 1, 2, 3, and 5. Each square on the clock represents one of these numbers—the side lengths of each square match these numbers.

Weekend Edition "Math Guy" Keith Devlin tells the story of this arithmetic revolution in his new book, The Man of Numbers.Numerals 0 to 9 had been around in Hindu and Arabic cultures for centuries ...

The Fibonacci Clock tells the time using glowing lights and the Fibonacci sequence. ... Of course, you’ll need to do a bit of math in order to get the time of day from this alarm clock.

Plants show Fibonacci numbers going upto 233 in sunflowers. It’s a very striking phenomenon — Alan Turing wrote computer programs seeking to understand this. It’s strawberry fields forever!