Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...
Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...
SAN DIEGO — A mathematical tale of how tigers got their stripes and leopards acquired spots has undergone a slight revision. In 1952, computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing devised a theory about ...
More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...