What’s so golden about the golden ratio? A myth-busting investigation tells the story of a misunderstood mathematical idea ...

The intriguing sequence was first mentioned by Fibonacci in his book Liber Abaci, which was published in Pisa in A.D. 1202. To solve a hypothetical problem about the multiplication of rabbits,-he ...

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.

These spiral patterns were “Fibonacci spirals” – that is, spirals that have dimensions governed by the Fibonacci series (see fig: “Fibonacci spiral”). Cao’s team do not think the Fibonacci spirals ...

The size of each step in these “infinite staircases” was a ratio of Fibonacci numbers. As the staircase ascended, the steps became smaller and smaller, the top of the staircase crushing up against the ...