Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Mathematics and art are generally viewed as very different disciplines – one devoted to abstract thought, the other to feeling. But sometimes the parallels between the two are uncanny. From Islamic ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Dating back to the early Islamic period, these designs were developed using a set of mathematical principles. Islamic art was characterized by utilizing geometric patterns in a distinct manner owing ...