In Darren Aronofsky's first feature film, "Pi," a number theorist begins to see mathematical patterns everywhere. Sample protagonist voice-over: "If we're built from spirals while living in a giant ...

Music and engineering are often considered complementary disciplines, and our industry boasts countless engineers who are musicians, some semi-famous or nearly so. Not so much art and engineering, ...

Art, the universal language, can transcend space and time to reach a diverse audience. We hear this all the time, but do we truly feel the weight of these words? A cloud of elitism envelops the “art ...

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Art, science and history might be favorite subjects for Alexia Phillips, a first-grader at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School, but she's also learning a little about mathematics while she draws in ...

To some, Alexander Calder's aerial sculptures appear more like an oversized version of the mobiles over a child's crib. To those in the art world, they expressed a synthesis of abstract ...

Flipping through a deck of cards in the library as her friends and classmates slough through books and papers means that, sometimes, people want answers from Carolyn Chen. "I usually have to reassure ...

Prints from the portfolio Concinnitas (2014), a collaboration between Dan Rockmore, professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College, and 10 mathematicians and physicists, with publisher Robert Feldman ...

Researchers and artists from around the country discussed the capacity of images to facilitate mathematical understanding at a panel discussion Monday. Moderated by Providence artist Allison Paschke ...

In most math classes in Pocahontas County, W.Va., students aren’t taking notes from the board. They’re not listening to a teacher lecture. Instead, small groups in middle and high school classrooms ...

At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both. Faye E. Goldman's origami, center, on view at the National Museum of Mathematics ...