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 ...

Endless spirals and beautiful patterns: solving the maths behind cauliflowers The romanesco is a pretty random-looking vegetable, but there are methods within its madness . Using ‘fractals’, ...

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 ...