While art and math may seem strange bedfellows, the two combine to form the basis of Owen Schuh's striking new show, "Pythagorean Nightmare." Schuh built a 15-foot drawing machine. The Wisconsin ...

Math isn’t often thought of as a tool for social justice. But mathematical thinking can help us understand what’s going on in society too, says mathematician Eugenia Cheng. For example, abstract math ...

Professor of Mathematics Richard Schwartz said he’d initially thought his feature in New York’s Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery exhibition “Metric on a Torus” was a “long shot.” “I thought it was never ...

What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

The primary authors of this post are Dirk B. Walther (University of Toronto) and Claudia Damiano (KU Leuven) Have you ever stood before an abstract painting, feeling a surge of emotion but struggling ...