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 ...

Las Vegas Springs Preserve showcases its interactive exhibit Numbers in Nature: A Mirror Maze through Sunday inside the preserve’s Origen Museum.

Fractal Patterns in Nature and Art Are Aesthetically Pleasing and Stress-Reducing One researcher takes this finding into account when developing retinal implants that restore vision ...

On the face of it, the Golden Ratio just looks like another mathematical anomoly, until one looks around and sees its patterns and dimensions occurring naturally throughout the world and the universe.

The reason patterns often appear in nature is simple: The same basic physical or chemical processes occur in many patterned substances and organisms as they form. Whether in plants and animals or ...

From rippled waves to striated skies, natural patterns afford a wonderful opportunity to contemplate nature’s most powerful expressions.

Nature follows a number pattern called Fibonacci This undated photo shows a spruce cone with a marked fibonacci number sequence.

Nature follows a number pattern called Fibonacci What do pine cones and paintings have in common? A 13th century Italian mathematician named Leonardo of Pisa.