Have you ever gazed at a woven basket, a painted rock, or a beaded garment and felt a strange sense of harmony—like the ...

Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...

Our brain doesn't passively receive visual input—it actively orchestrates a symphony of neural oscillations to process the complex, dynamic scenes we see in everyday life.

The internet can’t seem to get enough of optical illusions — and for good reason. These brain teasers not only entertain but ...

“Rose Window 10,” created by Ithaca artist Werner Sun in 2022, is the result of an extended improvisation on mathematical ...

Muqarnas include more than just one type of architectural decoration, he explains. In fact, the term covers a diverse range ...

Two mathematicians now say they’ve made progress on a very old unsolved math problem. The problem involves a subfield called geometric measure theory, in which sets of objects are generalized in ...