It has long been observed that many plants produce leaves, shoots, or flowers in spiral patterns. Cauliflower provides a unique example of this phenomenon, because those spirals repeat at several ...

The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical concept that has been around for centuries. Named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, the sequence is derived by adding the ...

I wasn't attracted to Dan Brown's 2003 bestseller The Da Vinci Code, but I gather that to decode "the code" you need a passing knowledge of the golden ratio and its mathematical mate the Fibonacci ...