Abstract: Mathematicians and Computer Scientists love Fibonacci numbers because the rule to generate the sequence is very simple, but they are related to many challenging conjectures. There are around ...

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 ...

A red circle is inscribed inside a blue square. The arrangement leaves gaps in the square’s four corners, two of which are filled with smaller circles that just barely touch the big red circle and the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Without a standardized numbering system, researching and organizing a paper money collection can be a frustrating experience. It can be a time-consuming process and prone to mistakes that industry ...

The stable or robust transfer of matter, information, or energy, from one point in space to another is a crucial scientific and technological challenge. In 1983, Nobel laureate D. J. Thouless proposed ...

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 ...

We all know potential doctors who are derailed by organic chemistry -- or even by pre-algebra. Many of these would-be M.D.s suffer from math anxiety, which takes various forms: Some students are ...