Let’s sing and repeat patterns together! "Let’s sing and repeat patterns together! Learning Goal: Make patterns with repeating sounds Vocabulary: Patterns, beats, sounds, repeat, next Pause and Wonder ...

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 ...

Have you ever admired how the slats of a hardwood floor fit together so cleanly, or how the hexagons underneath your bathroom rug perfectly meet up? These are examples of geometric tilings, ...

This photograph does a pretty good job of "describing" ripples. But a mathematician could do it with greater precision and predictive power. Image credit: andressolo, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 "How is it ...

It’s surprising how much complexity and beauty emerge from these equations,” said Taiga Miyachi, referring to the winding patterns his team discovered in the vibrations of black holes. Astronomers are ...