This undated photo shows a spruce cone with a marked fibonacci number sequence. A numbers sequence thought up by the 13th century Italian mathematician known as Fibonacci plays out in plants, from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Consider yourself lucky if you find a four-leaf clover because these are rare in nature. In the natural world, there is a number pattern that repeats itself: in the way flower petals are attached to a ...

The world could use some good luck these days. Unfortunately, Ireland’s fabled solution — finding a four-leaf clover — remains as hard as ever to pull off this Saint Patrick’s Day. That’s because the ...

A team of physicists say they managed to create a new phase of matter by shooting laser pulses reading out the Fibonacci sequence to a quantum computer in Colorado. The matter phase relies on a quirk ...

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 ...