The real award is that you competed. The golden ratio is famous, but maybe more so as an image of a nautilus shell with a rectangle drawn around it than as the actual idea of the ratio it embodies: “A ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...

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The golden ratio is an almost mythical number that you may have heard of in various areas of architecture or design. For example, many claim the ancient Greek Parthenon has numerous examples of the ...

As my first semester of college comes to a close, it is astonishing to look back on all that I’ve learned. However, despite not taking a math class this semester, one thing that I seemed to learn a ...

Struggling to help your child with their homework? The older they get, the more difficult the assignments become, and for ...

My colleague Joni Lakin, Assistant Professor at Auburn University, sends me her latest paper titled “Sex differences in reasoning abilities: Surprising evidence that male-female ratios in the tails of ...

Let's find out exactly what is it! The golden ratio. Some say it’s the most mythical number in the universe. Others say it underlies everything from nature’s patterns to beauty in art and design. But, ...