It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

Who doesn’t love a good math holiday? Most people know about Pi Day (3/14), but there are even rarer days on the calendar ...

In 1202 Leonardo da Pisa (aka Fibonacci) taught Western Europe how to do arithmetic with Arabic numerals. In Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's... Though generations of schoolchildren have cursed arithmetic, ...

Leonardo Bonacci – known as Fibonacci, the son of Bonaccio – lived from 1170 to about 1245 AD. It is he who we must thank for ...

Mathematics is the cornerstone of science, technology, and money. It comprises branches like Calculus and Algebra, ...

Celebrate the simple mathematical sequence that is hidden in everything from sunflower spirals to Da Vinci's paintings ...

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Picture yourself as a commercial traveler in Venice during a trade fair at the end of the 12th century. Business is booming, so you have to tune out a cacophony of accents and tongues while haggling ...

What in the world is a Fibonacci Sequence? Where in the world can you spot one in the wild? And why in the world is that BEE adding and subtracting at the lightening speed of a child?! Join Guy Raz ...

The world could use some good luck these days. Unfortunately, Ireland’s fabled solution — finding a four-leaf clover — remains as hard as ever to pull off this Saint Patrick’s Day. That’s because the ...

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