This lavishly illustrated book provides a hands-on, step-by-step introduction to the intriguing mathematics of symmetry. Instead of breaking up patterns into blocks--a sort of potato-stamp ...

Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.

Just as many of us are struck by the beauty of symmetrical patterns in nature and art, Chen-Ning Yang had a deep feeling for ...