Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like mathematics. Recent analysis of 8,000‑year‑old botanical designs suggests ...

Snowflakes, flower petals, a galaxy’s spiral arms, a tiger’s stripes — these are all examples of naturally occurring patterns. Through computer programming using basic functions, matrix representation ...

Math underlies many of the art pieces M.C. Escher created, because he was fascinated with the idea of depicting infinity in various ways, producing infinitely repeatable patterns known as ...