Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Throughout history, art and mathematics have informed each other in stunning and often magical ways. The Cat’s Eye Nebula is a sun-like star located 3000 light-years away in the constellation Draco.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The word “geometry” means earth measurement and the subject evolved from measuring plots of land accurately and also from the work of builders and carpenters. So the geometry that we call Euclidean ...

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 ...