When Alfred University Associate Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didnt immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of ...

Whether it's Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, or ancient humans' lustrous cave paintings, the creation of art is an inherently human story. By applying a ...

Snowflakes, flower petals, a galaxy’s spiral arms, a tiger’s stripes — these are all examples of naturally occurring patterns. Through computer programming using basic functions, matrix representation ...

When it comes to fine art, there is scarcely a collector who hasn't been fooled or almost fooled by an extremely well-crafted fake being passed off as a masterpiece by an artistic giant like Raphael, ...

Dartmouth College computer scientists have formulated a technique that could help authenticate art--with math. Dan Rockmore, Hany Farid and Siwei Lyu examined "Madonna and Child" (left). Though it's ...

Audrey G. Bennett receives funding from the NEH and NSF. Ron Eglash receives funding from the NSF. The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of ...