Time for some simple mathematics that span across the scientific world. This week, we’re exploring just some examples of the “golden ratio”. * Enough of getting bogged down in the numbers, here’s ...

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“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 ...

Leonardo Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician with a penchant for decimalization and rabbits! Having introduced the numbers 0 to 9 to Europe (like some medieval Big Bird from Sesame Street), he ...

Just over 50% of Americans own stock. This is a considerable increase from twenty years ago when only 30% of Americans owned stock. For many people, they avoid investing in stock because they find it ...

What we today call the golden mean was known in antiquity. It is a specific ratio of lengths between two line segments. Ancient architects often used this ratio to achieve visually pleasing esthetic ...

Read this article on the Moneyball Economics website by clicking here. Stock prices ebb-and-flow according to various factors, not all of which are financial. There's the human factors—success ...

The Fibonacci Series, a set of numbers that increases rapidly, began as a medieval math joke about how fast rabbits breed. But it’s became a source of insight into art, architecture, nature, and ...

The secret behind this best seller has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with numbers. Harvard University Professor Robert Langdon, the hero of Dan Brown’s best-selling novel The Da ...