For centuries, the phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" has dominated discussions of aesthetics. This adage suggests that beauty is entirely subjective—what one person finds attractive, ...

What do pine cones and paintings have in common? A 13th-century Italian mathematician named Leonardo of Pisa. Better known by his pen name, Fibonacci, he came up with a number sequence that keeps ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...