In Medieval Architecture, Signs of Advanced Math
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The Islamic pattern-making process appears to have involved an advanced math of quasi crystals.
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A real-time 3-D computer reconstruction allows visitors to navigate the ancient city as if it were 320 A.D. again.
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Medieval Times, a dinner-theater attraction, has grown to become a theme restaurant empire.
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The Modern's architecture department was once famous for changing the way Americans viewed design. The new installation, by comparison, is unlikely to burn a hole in our memories.
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Imagine the long centuries of the Stone Age, when life was, by definition, hard and there was not a tipple to be had. People in the Middle East came to find a pleasing remedy in the marvel
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Medieval 'quasicrystalline geometry' A US scientist has discovered that medieval Islamic ceramic designs demonstrate their makers' understanding of "quasicrystalline geometry" - something modern mathematicians only "figured out" in the last 20 or 30 years.â¦
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A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics.
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Bowdoin Collegeâs enormous, newly reinstalled ninth-century B.C. Assyrian sculptures have a story to tell.
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An unusual combination of classicists, engineers and archaeologists unveil something not even HBO and Hollywood could manage â a complete 3-D model of Rome, circa 320 A.D.
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Martin Puryearâs sculptures, as seen at the Museum of Modern Art, balance between the geometric and the organic with Zen aplomb.
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A 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator, the Antikythera Mechanism -- with its intricate and baffling system of about 30 geared wheels -- has been an enigma.
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One of the most complex reframing projects in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has collided with a 9-foot-3-inch-high doorway. The doorway won.
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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece.
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New York has recently witnessed the unveiling of nearly half a dozen major architectural landmarks, an abundance the city hasnât seen in decades.
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A new method for creating metamaterials that bend light in unusual ways may have brought practical applications closer.
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A tiny picture of Cambridge University's crest demonstrates the emerging power of nanotechnology.
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MILWAUKEE _ Mathematics has solved problems in nature for centuries.  The ancient Egyptians used geometry to survey their landscape. Isaac Newton developed calculus while describing planetary motion.  Many of the recent challenges in applied mathematics are coming from biology.