Miranda Draper works on fractals during the recent teacher workshop. Standing at the head of a classroom in a building with humming supercomputers making background music, Reinhard Laubenbacher told a ...
Patterns appear widely throughout nature and math, from the Fibonacci spirals of sea shells to the periodicity of crystals. But certain math problems can sometimes trick the human solver into seeing a ...
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Why do humans love to look at patterns? I can only guess, but I’ve written a whole book about new mathematical ways to make them. In Creating Symmetry, The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, I ...
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