The next number in the sequence is found by adding up the two numbers before it. The ratio for this sequence is 1.618. This is what some people call ‘The Divine Proportion’ or ‘The Golden Ratio’. This ...

Look closely at a sunflower, and you'll see the distinct spiral in its center. | UrsaHoogle/iStock via Getty Images Many flowers have petals that add up to Fibonacci numbers, including buttercups ...

But you can bring the wonk back by exaggerating the bumps, and it gets all optical-illusiony.Anyway, you're not sure what the second kind of spiral is good for, but I guess it's a good way to draw ...

The number of spirals in either direction is a fibonacci number. I just counted 5 parallel spirals going in one direction and 8 parallel spirals going in the opposite direction on a Norway spruce ...

Transforming numbers into an eye-catching spiral. Another way of thinking about the Golden Ratio is as a spiral. This spiral gets wider by a factor of 1.618 every time it makes a quarter turn (90°).

Humpback whales created a mesmerizing Fibonacci spiral of bubbles to capture fish in Antarctica 01:26. Your teacher was right – math is everywhere, and it turns out that even whales use it.

Some had spirals but no Fibonacci numbers. Whether it's the mathematics of sunflower patterns or the plant biology behind it that interests you most, you can thank Turing for both.

Geniuses from Mozart to Leonardo da Vinci have used the Fibonacci Sequence. But what is it and why does it make great music? The Fibonacci Sequence has been nicknamed ‘nature’s code’, ‘the divine ...

What do pine cones and numbers 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 ...