Harvard University. (2007, February 24). Medieval Islamic Architecture Presages 20th-century Mathematics. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 02 ...

Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry -- a concept discovered by Western mathematicians ...

The wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Harvard University via AP Feb. 22 ...

AMMAN — "I've made up a word Islamesque as a direct challenge to the concept of Romanesque because Romanesque architecture is what in European art history comes before Gothic, " said Diana Darke at ...

Mathematicians find that geometric patterns in medieval Islamic tiles even more complicated that previously thought, with one configuration not discovered in West until 1970s.

Medieval Islamic artisans developed a pattern-making process for designing ornate tiled surfaces that allowed them to produce sophisticated patterns not seen in the West until centuries later, a ...

Medieval Islamic designers used elaborate geometrical tiling patterns at least 500 years before Western mathematicians developed the concept. The geometric design, called “girih”, was widely ...

The swirling Arabesque ceramic tiles used in medieval Islamic mosaics and architecture were produced using geometry not understood in the West until the 1970s.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical breakthrough 500 years earlier than Western ...