This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...

Hold a Chinese money plant up to the light and you can see its veins branching through the round, translucent leaf like ...

Music and mathematics might seem like unlikely bedfellows. One lives in the realm of feeling and expression, the other in cold logic and numbers. Yet scratch beneath the surface of history's most ...

Scientists have found mathematical patterns underlying the way individuals unconsciously distribute their preferences regarding approaching or avoiding objects in their environment. These patterns ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When you look through a kaleidoscope, the ...

Why do humans love to look at patterns? I can only guess, but I’ve written a whole book about new mathematical ways to make them. In Creating Symmetry, The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, I ...

Mathematical patterns reveal profound truths about the universe and, surprisingly, about our inner lives as well. These five visual math concepts offer unique frameworks for understanding our behavior ...

Researchers in Spain have found patterns of behavior that occur before an earthquake on the Iberian peninsula. The team used clustering techniques to forecast medium-large seismic movements when ...