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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...