Prime numbers are the ones that have only two factors: 1 and itself. Credit: Ssindhwani / Wikimedia Commons Prime numbers are those divisible only by themselves and by one. Despite their apparent ...

Iranian game maker Mahdi Bahrami’s Engare allows users to create their own intricate patterns found in Islamic art and architecture. The intricate geometric patterns of Islamic art are not only ...

1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. These are the first five elements of a number sequence. Can you figure out what comes next? If you're trying a bunch of arithmetic operations to make the numbers work, you're ...

Here's a deeply satisfying number pattern for your mathematical Monday. Here, Numberphile explains the Kolakoski sequence, which begins as follows: 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2 ...

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 ...