A movie " Guy makes a big ball out of plywood" has been released that cleverly combines boards of flat flat wood into a sphere and contains a procedure to embellish a superb pattern on the surface.

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

This tan paper cut and glued model has thirty-six equal isosceles triangles for sides. Eighteen of these are around the middle, facing in opposite directions as in an antiprism. Nine at each end form ...

Dating back to the early Islamic period, these designs were developed using a set of mathematical principles. Islamic art was characterized by utilizing geometric patterns in a distinct manner owing ...

High-dimensional spheres can have a much wider variety of structures than mathematicians thought possible. If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic on a rainy afternoon, you’ve probably watched raindrops ...

How to safely reopen offices, schools and other public spaces while keeping people six feet apart comes down to a question mathematicians have been studying for centuries. Sphere packing might seem ...