At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both. Faye E. Goldman's origami, center, on view at the National Museum of Mathematics ...

The solution to this month’s puzzle explains the artful mathematics behind symmetrical patterns. Look at the family of symmetrical curves below, one of which is featured in Farris’ book as a “mystery ...

Music and engineering are often considered complementary disciplines, and our industry boasts countless engineers who are musicians, some semi-famous or nearly so. Not so much art and engineering, ...

MATLAB—a math modeling software—is used to design sophisticated structures. Engineering professor Panchapakesan Venkataram found an equally creative use for the popular software: designing intricate ...

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

Prints from the portfolio Concinnitas (2014), a collaboration between Dan Rockmore, professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College, and 10 mathematicians and physicists, with publisher Robert Feldman ...

Researchers analyzing ancient pottery from Northern Mesopotamia have identified what may be the world's earliest botanical art. These finely painted vessels, produced by the Halafian culture, feature ...

Art, the universal language, can transcend space and time to reach a diverse audience. We hear this all the time, but do we truly feel the weight of these words? A cloud of elitism envelops the “art ...

Math gets a bad rap in the creative community. To be fair, devotees of facts and figures return the compliment. They push to make S.T.E.M. (science, technology engineering and math) the heart of ...

Mathematician Ken Ono describes how an inspiring mentor helped him redefine his relationship with numbers in this excerpt from his new book, written with mathematics writer Amir Aczel Excerpted from ...

BOSTON -- A new study finds art and music classes could help boost students' math scores. When schools are facing budget cuts, music and art classes are often the first to go. But a new study suggests ...