In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix. Photo: Marco de ...

SUBJECTS: Maths YEARS: 3–4, 5–6 Maths can be found in living things and natural structures. Explore mathematical patterns in nature, such as the tessellating hexagonal units of a honeycomb ...

Mathematics is visible everywhere in nature, even where we are not expecting it. It can help explain the way galaxies spiral, a seashell curves, patterns replicate, and rivers bend.

Patterns are all around us in nature too: in the number of petals on flowers, in the shapes of a snowflake, the shape of fruit or seeds in a sunflower. Mathematics is the study of these patterns ...

A 400 million-year-old fossil of a plant found in northern Scotland did not follow the spirals observed in the Fibonacci spirals ...

The arrangement of leaves on most plants follows a mathematical pattern – new research sheds light on how it evolved.

The largest ever research project into mathematical patterns in flowers proves a link between numbers and nature, Manchester scientists say.

New experiments confirm that complex patterns in plants emerge from a model proposed by mathematician Alan Turing.