If you have had the misfortune of spending any time caught “doomscrolling” short-form content, you’ve more than likely encountered at least one person bragging about how closely their face mimics a ...

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 ...

Grab a ruler, crunch the length-to-height ratios, and use the Fibonacci sequence to test whether this famous spiral is truly ...

“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 ...

Claims made about the golden ratio in nature are often overstated or romanticized. In fact, it is more often a useful model than it is a universal law, It is often suggested that the golden ratio ...

There is one thing that ancient Greeks, Renaissance artists, a 17th century astronomer and 21st century architects all have in common – they all used the Golden Mean, otherwise known as the Golden ...

How do we measure beauty? The poets and romantics might argue that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this doesn’t explain why so many actors, models, and stars are universally accepted as ...

Math whizzes may have noticed something particularly pleasing about today's date. According to Bloomberg, June 1, 2018 (formatted as 1/6/18 in many parts of the world) is Phi Day, a date that matches ...