Number sequences are sets of numbers that follow a pattern or a rule. Each number in a sequence is called a term. There are some special sequences that you should recognise. The most important of ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

When, as a young trainee in a London dealing room, I was first introduced to Fibonacci numbers I was, as are most people, skeptical. The analysis consists of calculating significant levels based on a ...

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 102, No. 3 (Mar., 1988), pp. 473-479 (7 pages) We present criteria for irrationality of limits of convergent sequences of rational numbers, ...

Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon. Mathematicians have long known how to describe this rotation as a simple multiplication: A number representing the initial ...

Christophe Golé is Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Smith College and co-author of ‘Do Plants Know Math?’ Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke , he discusses plants — and their number ...

Time can be a lot of things, depending on whom you ask: money, an arrow, an illusion or the fourth dimension. No matter your definition, though, most people today agree on how to tell time, counting ...