Kerr curator of natural history at the High Desert Museum, does know a lot about fractals, including the definition, as the curator of “Patterns at Play: Fractals in Nature,” a new exhibit ...

The numbers even pop up in natural science, to help explain the patterns we find there. It's such a recurring presence in the world, in fact, that a quarterly publication exists just to talk about ...

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Two hands drawing themselves into existence. Interlocking birds that morph into fish, and back again. Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher’s iconic, trippy images have mesmerized ...