Learn about the origins of the Fibonacci sequence, its relationship with the golden ratio and common misconceptions about its significance in nature and architecture. When you purchase through links ...

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 ...

Consider yourself lucky if you find a four-leaf clover because these are rare in nature. In the natural world, there is a number pattern that repeats itself: in the way flower petals are attached to a ...

Guangjie Li, graduate student, and Dr. Jukka Vayrynen, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, discuss calculations at the Purdue University Physics Building. Long before Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was ...

A series of whole numbers in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc. Fibonacci numbers are used in a variety of algorithms, including stock market analysis.

Tenacity has taken a roadblock and turned it into a possible route to the development of quantum computing. Long before Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was an assistant professor at the Purdue Department of ...