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Science News February 3, 2001 Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Chinese Calendar The curious coincidence of the Fibonacci cycle and the Chinese calendar cycle allowed Seok Sagong of Middletown, Conn., to establish a one-to-one correspondence between the sequence of final digits of Fibonacci numbers and the names of years in the Chinese calendar... |
Science News March 12, 2005 Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Other Numbers Generalized Fibonacci arrays have attractive properties and could provide a wealth of further activities for exploration... Puzzle of the Week... |
Science News November 4, 2006 Ivars Peterson |
Designer Decimals Fractions can yield amazingly familiar decimal expansions. |
Science News July 17, 2004 Ivars Peterson |
Waring Experiments The different ways of expressing whole numbers as sums of parts has long fascinated both professional and amateur mathematicians. |
Science News September 28, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
Stepping Beyond Fibonacci Numbers Trying variants of a simple mathematical rule that yields interesting results can lead to additional discoveries and curiosities. |
Fast Company February 2005 Fast Company |
Search us Questions from the Google Labs Aptitude Test, recently circulated by the search-engine company as a sort of geek-recruiting device. |
Science News October 19, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
A Fibonacci Fountain Lake Fibonacci is a recently created reservoir at the Maryland Science and Technology Center, bordered by Curie Drive and Science Drive. The lake's remarkable centerpiece is a massive, yet elegant mathematical fountain that spurts water as high as 36 feet into the air. |
Science News June 3, 2006 Ivars Peterson |
Fibonacci's Missing Flowers The number of petals that a flower has isn't always a Fibonacci number. You have to be careful when you're building mathematical models of natural phenomena. |
Science News September 24, 2005 |
Math Music An interactive Web site, developed at Eastern Washington University, provides variety of tools for composing music based on mathematical recipes that convert sequences of numbers -- such as pi, or Fibonacci numbers -- into sounds. |
Science News August 31, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
Golden Blossoms, Pi Flowers Fibonacci numbers (and the golden ratio) come up surprisingly often in nature, from the number of petals in various flowers to the number of scales along a spiral row in a pine cone. How do these numbers and the golden ratio arise? |