The same spiral has been found everywhere; in sunflower seeds and pinecones, snail shells and animal horns, and the placement of tree branches. The underlying numbers are found in the genealogy of ...

Abstract: Mathematicians and Computer Scientists love Fibonacci numbers because the rule to generate the sequence is very simple, but they are related to many challenging conjectures. There are around ...

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 ...

Celebrate the simple mathematical sequence that is hidden in everything from sunflower spirals to Da Vinci's paintings Discover why the sequence is considered nature's secret code, governing ...

John Cummings, the original drummer for the acclaimed San Jose rock act The Odd Numbers, died Friday (Aug. 27). He was 58. News of his death was made public through social media posts, including one ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

We all know potential doctors who are derailed by organic chemistry -- or even by pre-algebra. Many of these would-be M.D.s suffer from math anxiety, which takes various forms: Some students are ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...