The arrangement of leaves on most plants follows a mathematical pattern – new research sheds light on how it evolved.
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Pi gets a lot of attention this time of year, but there are plenty of other mathematical constants just as deserving of recognition.
Long thought to have originated in Ancient Greece, the golden ratio that forms the basis of the Swiss design style may have first emerged in Africa.
Today algorithms are ubiquitous, yet often misunderstood. Rather than mysterious entities, they’re closer to recipes, and the quality of the output depends on the input – in their case, data.
Poetry is at the heart of technology. Did not Pythagoras find the connections between beautiful music and mathematics?
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Chair of Computer Science, Trinity University
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University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
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