When Alfred University Associate Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didnt immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Searching for mathematical patterns and assist students in creating their own. In this lesson, Ms. Knarr leads the search for mathematical patterns and assists the students of Teaching in Room 9 in ...

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 ...

Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy traces the hidden patterns linking Shakespeare, symmetry, artificial intelligence, and football, arguing that mathematics is not cold calculation but the quiet engine of ...