Now a Harvard University researcher argues that more than 500 years ago, math whizzes met up with the artists and began creating far more complex tile patterns that culminated in what ...

The Staying Inside Guide: The Math Behind Mesmerizing Islamic Patterns Online videos reveal the numerical logic behind intricate Islamic geometrics. By Lee Lawrence Jan. 30, 2021 7:00 am ET Share ...

The study, by Dr. Peter Lu and colleagues of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., was titled "Decagonal and Quasi-Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture." view more ...

The House of Wisdom sounds a bit like make believe: no trace remains of this ancient library, destroyed in the 13th Century, so we cannot be sure exactly where it was located or what it looked like.

This image relates to an article titled "Decagonal and Quasi-Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture" that appeared in the Feb. 23, 2007, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS.