What do pine cones and paintings have in common? A 13th century Italian mathematician named Leonardo of Pisa. Better known by his pen name, Fibonacci, he came up with a number sequence that keeps ...

A spruce cone is marked to highlight its fibonacci number sequence. That sequence, explained by 13th century Italian mathematician Fibonacci, plays out in plants — from pine cones to pineapples — and ...

A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants. The ...

Fibonacci cubes represent a fascinating class of graphs that emerge as subgraphs of the n-dimensional hypercube. Defined by the restriction to binary strings that avoid consecutive 1s, these graphs ...

Life reconstruction of fossil Asteroxylon mackiei. Credit: Matt Humpage, Northern Rogue Studios A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves.

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 ...

The Golden Ratio (GR), often denoted by the Greek letter phi (Φ), is a mathematical ratio commonly found in nature, art, and architecture. This irrational number, approximately equal to 1.618, has ...