This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...

Have you ever observed the branching of your eye’s blood vessels? Or listened to a piece of music composed using symmetry? At the Museum of Science’s new temporary exhibit, “A Mirror Maze: Numbers in ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

“Pattern formation is both a mathematical and a physics of biology subject.” Golubitsky gave a lecture on patterns in nature and their mathematical underpinnings at OSU on Sunday.

In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix. Photo: Marco de ...

Creating shells out of nothing but mathematical equations, a computer scientist holds a mirror up to nature.

The wavy undulations of a sperm’s tail make striped patterns in space-time, which potentially follow patterns proposed by Alan Turing.

Pure mathematics is concerned with the study of abstract structures and intrinsic properties of mathematical objects, independent of practical applications. This field encompasses a variety of ...

There is no question that there are mathematical patterns in nature, from spirals in hurricanes and sunflowers to approximate symmetries and periodic motions, from elementary particles to galaxies.