In Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a super computer reveals that the meaning of life is the number 42. While Fibonacci's rabbit experiment doesn't tackle such deep questions ...

Not so Fibonacci Published 21 September 2005 From Ian Stewart, University of Warwick Gael Mariani and Martin Scott perpetuate a series of myths in their letter about Fibonacci numbers in nature (3 ...

Leonardo Pisano (1170–1250), or Fibonacci, is perhaps best known for a remarkable sequence of numbers that arises out of a problem that involves breeding rabbits. The problem is contained in the ...

The Fibonacci sequence is a set of steadily increasing numbers where each number is equal to the sum of the preceding two numbers.

Fibonacci numbers and their relationships can be visualized in terms of tilings.

Fibonacci numbers “always make mathematicians happy,” said Tara Holm, a mathematician at Cornell University. Their appearance in McDuff and Schlenk’s work, she added, was “some indication that there’s ...

Hoggatt sees Fibonacci everywhere. “The piano octave,” he notes with satisfaction, “has eight white keys—five black keys and 13 keys altogether,” all Fibonacci numbers. “I always use ...

Fibonacci numbers are ubiquitous in math and nature. Plus a bonus playlist.

Mathematicians and fans of unusual natural occurrences can celebrate 11/23 as Fibonacci Day, based on the first four numbers of his historic sequence November 23 might not sound like a day to ...