Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

When Louis Vega Trevino goes to Costco, he always comes home with one of those zillion-count, restaurant-size packages of paper napkins, which become small canvases for his "constant drawing." "I have ...

Geometric objects take on different properties depending on the space in which you visualize them. Using techniques from an upstart field called tropical geometry — which analyzes complicated shapes ...

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Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of the recent work by ...