The mathematics behind how such never-repeating patterns are created is very useful in understanding how they are formed and even in designing them with specific properties. That is why we at the ...

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In math, tilings are often appreciated for their regular patterns. But mathematicians also find beauty in irregularity. It’s this kind of beauty that a retired print technician was seeking when he ...

The universe is full of underlying structure, pattern and regularity, and mathematics is the best tool we have for understanding it — that’s why mathematics is often called the language of the ...

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.