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A quartet of mathematicians from Yorkshire University, the University of Cambridge, the University of Waterloo and the University of Arkansas has discovered a 2D geometric shape that does not ...
Hard as it may be to imagine, there’s a newly defined geometric shape on the books. Based on recent calculations, mathematicians have described a new classification they now call a “soft cell.” ...
"They made tilings that reflect mathematics that were so sophisticated that we didn't figure it out until the last 20 or 30 years." The Islamic designs echo quasicrystalline geometry in that both use ...
The pattern is related to extrinsic, rather than intrinsic, geometry. Credit: bibi57/Getty The growth of rose petals exploits a geometric trick previously unobserved in nature, physicists have found.
What fractals, Fibonacci, and the golden ratio have to do with cauliflower Self-selected mutations during domestication drastically changed shape over time.