Hold a Chinese money plant up to the light and you can see its veins branching through the round, translucent leaf like rivers on a map. To most people, the pattern looks organic and loosely random.

A strange mathematical pattern spotted in blasts of radio waves coming from deep space could be evidence of alien civilizations. Or it might be nothing. Unfortunately for those of us hoping for aliens ...

The Chinese money plant, commonly seen in homes and offices as a simple ornamental houseplant, is now drawing serious ...

A few minutes into a 2018 talk at the University of Michigan, Ian Tobasco picked up a large piece of paper and crumpled it into a seemingly disordered ball of chaos. He held it up for the audience to ...

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 ...