Here's a hypothetical and idealized question about rabbits, first posed by Leonardo di Pisa in 1202 (Leonardo is more commonly known as Fibonacci). There's a pair of rabbits in an enormous field. At ...

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 ...

Converting between units is often something you have to do on the fly, and it is made easier when you memorise some rough equivalents. For instance, an imperial pint is 568 millilitres, but I often ...

Have you ever heard of the Fibonacci sequence? Or the Golden Ratio? Or the Golden Spiral? These mysterious numbers and shapes are all connected to each other. If you look closely, they can be found in ...

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic. Leonardo of Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, is largely responsible for the adoption of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system in ...

When you count the number of petals that different flowers have, you’ll discover that the most common number of petals is five. Buttercups, geraniums, pansies, primroses, rhododendrons, tomato ...

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...