Miranda Draper works on fractals during the recent teacher workshop. Standing at the head of a classroom in a building with humming supercomputers making background music, Reinhard Laubenbacher told a ...
John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...
Why do humans love to look at patterns? I can only guess, but I’ve written a whole book about new mathematical ways to make them. In Creating Symmetry, The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, I ...