The Fibonacci Series, a set of numbers that increases rapidly, began as a medieval math joke about how fast rabbits breed. But it’s became a source of insight into art, architecture, nature, and ...

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 ...

Some people like a little challenge in the morning, and that’s what Philippe Chretien hopes to offer with his new device. He is the man behind the Fibonacci Clock, which is exactly what it sounds like ...

Though generations of schoolchildren have cursed arithmetic, the world was a much more inconvenient place without it. Before the advent of modern arithmetic in the 13th century, basic calculations ...

No single number has been more celebrated than the Fibonacci sequence. Alternately kowtowed to as the Golden Ratio, the Divine Proportion, and That One Really Awesome Spiral, this famous number ...

A traditional Chinese medicine cabinet features numerous deep drawers, all of the same dimensions. It's a piece of furniture that has remained unchanged for centuries thanks to the form being ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — At 3:59 p.m. on a recent Thursday, Joseph Park entered a high school computer lab, threw off his big blue backpack and began what to most of us would look like a hellish online math ...

Fibonacci Techniques for Math Geeks -- and Everyone Else, Too - The word Fibonacci (pronounced fib-oh-notch-ee) can draw either blank stares or an enthusiastic response. There's hardly any in-between ...