Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...
Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...
Infinitely many copies of a 13-sided shape can be arranged with no overlaps or gaps in a pattern that never repeats. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss (CC BY ...
Nature follows mathematical rules and creates repeating patterns across completely different organisms and environments.
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Click to view download files Click to view IIIF info This media is in the public domain (free of copyright ...