These are questions that Neil Sloane, a mathematician of Highland Park, New Jersey, loves to ask. Sloane is the founder of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, a database of 362,765 (and ...

Number sequences are sets of numbers that follow a pattern or a rule. Each number in a sequence is called a term. There are some special sequences that you should recognise. The most important of ...

I wasn't attracted to Dan Brown's 2003 bestseller The Da Vinci Code, but I gather that to decode "the code" you need a passing knowledge of the golden ratio and its mathematical mate the Fibonacci ...

What Is A Fibonacci Sequence? Patterns are found all over the natural world. From the grasping tendrils of a plant to the dew-laden web of a spider, we can see repeated sequences as a product of ...