“Help me and let me help you.” Or in Ghana’s Twi language: “Boa me na me mmoa wo.” The aphorism signifies cooperation and interdependence. And like many Twi expressions, it can be communicated with a ...

Music and engineering are often considered complementary disciplines, and our industry boasts countless engineers who are musicians, some semi-famous or nearly so. Not so much art and engineering, ...

Long before numbers were written down or equations etched into clay tablets, early farming communities may have been doing math - with flowers. A new study, published in the Journal of World ...

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 ...

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...