Have you ever gazed at a woven basket, a painted rock, or a beaded garment and felt a strange sense of harmony—like the ...

Odd Squad agents frequently use geometry to crack tough cases, but shapes are more than tools for the job. In this activity, your child can make beautiful circle art using a ruler to draw straight ...

"It’s really important to remember that we’re ultimately designing for human eyes, and human eyes don’t always math very well," another designer adds. Some are suggesting that the circles often aren't ...

Welcome to a city where pi equals 4 and circles aren’t round. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, uncovers ...

The circle has been around and influenced human behavior even before the beginning of recorded history. Primitive men would have observed circles in their daily lives, such as the moon, sun, and ...

If the design was merely a rough circle one might hypothesize that wind patterns or lightning or some other natural, known phenomenon was somehow responsible. A mathematical equation, on the other ...

It was a crop circle in the middle of the night in a field, which is not a straight canvas,” she says. “It was 13-fold geometry, very difficult to construct on paper. Try to divide a cake into ...

Non-Western art and design can reveal alternate ways of thinking about math. Modern math has mostly Western origins, so ideas from other cultures are often missing ...

Creating mathematical artwork inspired the artist M.C. Escher to explore geometry, even though he had minimal math training. Representing infinity through graphic design was one of Escher’s goals.

Computers are working to solve an age-old geometry problem. Humans can’t “square the circle” by hand, which was proven in the 1800s. Computer solutions involve infinity, complexity, and some ...