It’s easy to forget that geometry is, at its core, a branch of mathematics. Many Indigenous artists were—and are—sophisticated mathematicians, able to visualize complex patterns and ratios ...

We covered breakthroughs in graph theory, combinatorics, number theory and geometry — areas where patterns arise in unexpected ways, sometimes because of connections between seemingly distinct ...

The ornament explores a branch of mathematics known as tiling, which seeks to fill a space completely with regular geometric patterns. Math shows that a flat surface can be regularly covered by ...

These patterns were 'discovered' in 1973 by the British mathematical physicist Roger Penrose. In 1984, they were found in metal alloys called quasi-crystals that seemed to break the geometric ...

The geometric design, called “girih”, was widely used to decorate Islamic buildings but the advanced mathematical concept within the patterns was not recognised, until now. Physicist Peter Lu ...

Kirigami is a traditional Japanese art form that entails cutting and folding paper to produce complex three-dimensional (3D) structures or objects. Over the past decades, this creative practice has ...

Dating back to the early Islamic period, these designs were developed using a set of mathematical principles. Islamic art was characterized by utilizing geometric patterns in a distinct manner owing ...