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 ...

At the annual Bridges conference, mathematical creativity was on dazzling display. By Siobhan Roberts It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the Dutch sculptor Rinus Roelofs organizes his life ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

ABSTRACT: Similar to Harari’s proposal that all leptonic and baryonic matter is composed of four substructure fundamental particles and their antiparticles, T,V, T ˜ , V ˜ , we propose that the two ...

This Monday morning, June 23, I received the news of the death of my friend Arnaldo Pomodoro the night before, only a few hours before his 99th birthday. I had known him for almost 20 years and had ...

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous. Famously, at the quantum scale, particles can be ...

The sleeve art sets the tone perfectly. Computer generated blobs and geometric solids loom above Taro Mizutani’s monochrome land- and cityscapes. They are like stills from an alien disaster movie, ...

When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Student Design Competition with the theme of "Sacred Geometry: Platonic Solids." $24,000 in prizes! The Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) in Greenwood Village, CO seeks conceptual design proposals for its ...