The Fibonacci Series, a set of numbers that increases rapidly, began as a medieval math joke about how fast rabbits breed. But it’s became a source of insight into art, architecture, nature, and ...

Pine cones. Stock-market quotations. Sunflowers. Classical architecture. Reproduction of bees. Roman poetry. What do they have in common? In one way or another, these and many more creations of nature ...

THAT art and mathematics can make for miserable bedfellows cannot have escaped the attention of Alfred Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann. The mathematics in this book is a delight: surprising, ...