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 ...

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 ...

Dan Brown’s blockbuster book, “The Da Vinci Code,” already has upset the Catholic church and confounded medieval historians. Now, you can add mathematicians to the list. As the movie version of the ...

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, ...