The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up images of M.C. Escher’s endless staircases, Möbius-strip ants, and mind-boggling tilings. Or it might remind one of the intimate intertwining of ...

Fractals are a fascinating type of pattern for mathematics nerds, with their repeating, artificial-looking structures. Now, scientists have discovered the first known fractal protein – and it seems to ...

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(PhysOrg.com) -- What do mountains, broccoli and the stock market have in common? The answer to that question may best be explained by fractals, the branch of geometry that explains irregular shapes ...

Don Bristow, IT Director at Bethesda Health Clinlic, talks about his art in front of section of the piece "Genesis" on Thursday at the clinic in Tyler. Bristow uses mathematical formula called ...

Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Benoit Mandelbrot, who coined the term “fractal” and founded the field of fractal geometry, died on Thursday from pancreatic cancer. He was 85. Mandelbrot ...

The image above, generated from a relatively simple mathematical formula, has become iconic and permanently connected with the man who identified it: mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot. But its iconic ...

Here’s a fun project that my friend Upasana and I put together some weekends ago. It’s a visual exploration of fractals through dance, a piece of generative art that’s part performance and part ...

What you’re watching isn’t organic, but a computer-generated visualization of complex mathematics. It’s a three-dimensional fractal. The clip is a new music video for the song “Eternal Recurrence” by ...

The term “mathematical art” usually conjures up images of M.C. Escher’s endless staircases, Möbius-strip ants, and mind-boggling tilings. Or it might remind one of the intimate intertwining of ...