When Peter J. Lu traveled to Uzbekistan, he had no idea of the mathematical journey that he was about to embark on as well. The Harvard graduate student in physics was fascinated by the beautiful and ...

Islamic architects and mathematicians were creating quasi-crystalline patterns some 500 years before similar patterns were described in the West, claim two physicists in the US. Peter J Lu of Harvard ...

A short while ago Nobel Intent covered quasi-crystalline patterns that adorn some medieval mosques. Roger Penrose rediscovered these patterns in the 70s, when he demonstrated that they have some ...

Patterning and periodic structures are very important in physics. This led to a tremendous amount of work on learning what shapes can tile an area or fill a volume. It was found that these shapes must ...

The complex geometrical designs used centuries ago in Islamic art and architecture were planned with a tiling system that was not discovered in the West until five centuries later, two physicists have ...

The main focus of this unique book is an in-depth examination of the polygonal technique; the primary method used by master artists of the past in creating Islamic geometric patterns. The author ...

Did Islamic artisans discover a strange form of geometry half a millennium before pioneering work by one of Britain's most distinguished mathematicians? An intricate archway in the Darb-i Iman shrine ...