Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

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 ...

For Nelson Saiers, a great work of art can be one of the most mind-bending and elegant of mathematical equations. In fact, for this math whiz-turned Wall Street trader-turned full-time artist, math ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

From alien angels to hyperbolic lamp shades, these works of art were created not with paintbrush or chisel, but with equations and geometry. Though math and art may seem like complete opposites, for ...

Mathematics is beautiful: intellectually elegant, exquisitely austere and pretty. Yes, pretty. Like, pretty to look at. That aesthetic beauty was easy to see at the 2009 Joint Mathematics Meetings in ...

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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, ...