When Fibonacci introduced what would become an eponymous sequence, he did so using rabbits as an analogy. Breeding pairs of rabbits are able to multiply within their ranks infinitely. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with ...

Fibonacci cubes represent a fascinating class of graphs that emerge as subgraphs of the n-dimensional hypercube. Defined by the restriction to binary strings that avoid consecutive 1s, these graphs ...