Have you ever observed the branching of your eye’s blood vessels? Or listened to a piece of music composed using symmetry? At the Museum of Science’s new temporary exhibit, “A Mirror Maze: Numbers in ...

This weekend, the Franklin Institute opens its summer exhibition about mathematical patterns that recur in nature. Its centerpiece is a 1,700-square-foot maze of mirrors, set in a grid of equilateral ...

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Nature - Animal behaviour is an endless challenge to mathematical modellers. In this, the first of two features, Mark Buchanan looks at how a mathematical principle from physics might be able to ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...

In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge. All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.

In nature, patterns of chemical interactions between two different substances are believed to govern the designs our eyes see—for example, a zebra’s stripes.These stripey designs are governed ...

Sep. 27, 2023 — Patterns of chemical interactions are thought to create patterns in nature such as stripes and spots. This new study shows that the mathematical basis of these patterns also ...

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Mathematics of plant leaves ... The equation can generate many, but not all, leaf arrangement patterns observed in nature by changing the value of different variables of plant physiology, ...