Mission Issued]You are the lead engineer at a "Biomimetics" research lab! You are developing self-replicating nanorobots that treat the body by mimicking the way biological cells divide and multiply.

Fibonacci numbers, moon math, and a mystery hiding in plain sight—one simple sequence unlocks secrets of space no one saw ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

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 ...

The spiral of an artichokes leaves can be described by the Fibonacci Sequence. This sequence is a simple mathematical pattern where each successive number in the sequence is equal to the sum of the ...

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Having stumbled upon Project Euler sometime ago and solving the first problem, this disco dancer from the Age of Aquarius thought it was time to tackle problem two, which states: Each new term in the ...

Do you know what Fibonacci Day is? This holiday honors Leonardo Bonacci, also known as Fibonacci, one of the finest medieval mathematicians. Fibonacci is best known for writing Liber Abaci ("The Book ...

I was surprised that your section on problem solving made no mention of one of the most influential books in the history of mathematics: Fibonacci’s “Liber Abaci,” published in 1202 and devoted ...

Two thousand years after the Indian mathematician and poet Acharya Pingala first described it, the Fibonacci sequence is still showing up in new places. The series—in which each number is the sum of ...