A 'simple' math sequence has left the internet puzzled, proving that it may be far more complex than it appears at first glance. The mathematical brain teaser, posted by X user Bholanath DuttaFounder, ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Do you know what Fibonacci Day is? This holiday honors Leonardo Bonacci, also known as Fibonacci, one of the finest medieval mathematicians. Fibonacci is best known for writing Liber Abaci ("The Book ...

Prime Number Patterns Prime numbers, divisible only by themselves and 1, have long fascinated mathematicians. Discovering new ...

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 ...

Number sequences are sets of numbers that follow a pattern or a rule. Each number in a sequence is called a term. A sequence which increases or decreases by the same amount each time is called a ...

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. These are the first five elements of a number sequence. Can you figure out what comes next? If you're trying a bunch of arithmetic operations to make the numbers work, you're ...