This post was co-authored by Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring We are used to thinking about people, places, and things as beautiful. A particular combination of sensations evokes the pleasure that ...

My job at BYU is... associate professor of Mechanical Engineering. I will teach you fluid dynamics if you come to my class, or we will make new discoveries about ...

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Richard A. Friedman in the Sunday New York Times wonders what it is about math that makes it so elegant and aesthetically appealing. He asks, “Is it the internal logic? The unique mix of simplicity ...

Glen Whitney, founder of the Museum of Math in New York, chose another geometrical theorem, this one having to do with the Euler line, named after 18th-century Swiss mathematician and physicist ...

The chambers in this nautilus shell graduate at a rate of 1.618, a number defined as a divine proportion since ancient times. Because pleasing proportions don't just happen, borrowing a few pointers ...

This post was co-authored by Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring We are used to thinking about people, places, and things as beautiful. A particular combination of sensations evokes the pleasure that ...