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

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

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reporter's notebook SAN JOSE, Calif.--Can math make art? Can logic inform patterns and sequences that are visually compelling? Is light a medium suitable for the artistic canvas? Clearly, the answer ...

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MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Math + art = an exhibit dedicated to the beauty of numbers and patterns. It's called "Intersections: Math, Art, Truth, Humanity." "Which spells out 'math'," said Tracy ...

What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...