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 ...

If you've been spotting the number seven lately, you may be in luck. Whether you've noticed a series of sevens, like 777, or synchronicities involving the digit, you're experiencing what some refer to ...

The seemingly random digits known as prime numbers are not nearly as scattershot as previously thought. A new analysis by Princeton University researchers has uncovered patterns in primes that are ...

From zebra stripes to a honeycomb lattice, nature features breathtaking patterns. Now, physicists based in China have found a way to recreate these natural motifs in 3-D — using just a little ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Past studies on the differences between the processing of numerical and verbal information have typically considered numerical information in ...