Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may contain a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long assumed that ...

Surprisingly, the answer turns out to be yes—if you’re allowed to shift, rotate, and reflect the tile, and if the tile is disconnected, meaning that it has gaps. Those gaps get filled by other ...

What do mathematics and your kitchen backsplash have in common? More than you might think: according to recent findings published in The Guardian, mathematicians have had a breakthrough in the world ...