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 ...

Mathematics and art are generally viewed as very different disciplines – one devoted to abstract thought, the other to feeling. But sometimes the parallels between the two are uncanny. From Islamic ...

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 ...

The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought. It took a long time for Claire Voisin to fall in love with mathematics.

Watching sparks fly and 600 pounds of melting iron glow from a historical furnace set in the parking lot of Ryan Field, Mike Pitorak was excited, fulfilling his year-long plan to take DSGN 395-64: ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Tattooing is an ancient art that goes back centuries, with trends coming and going. One of today's rising motifs in the permanent-ink culture is scared geometry. This particular ...