(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The colorful artwork on display at the National Museum of Mathematics is geometric and precise. They’ve been described by Wallpaper magazine as “the work of a ...

The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up just one name–that of Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972). Many people are familiar with Escher’s endless staircases, hyperbolic tilings, ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

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

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Frax, a new iOS app, leverages the computational oomph in your new iPhone to make dizzying detailed mathematical art. Frax, to its credit, leans right into the “ooh, neat colors!” aspect of fractal ...

George Hart, a sculptor and applied mathematician who uses geometric principles to create artwork, holding one of his pieces. Hart, who created a sculpture for Franklin College in 2020, will give a ...

Mathematics is art, and art is mathematics. So claim the father-son pair of Erik and Martin Demaine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. “Our math and our art have blended ...

“To survive I had to become creative,” said artist, author, inventor and Holocaust survivor Ivan Moscovich. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — The colorful artwork on display at the National Museum of ...