Music and engineering are often considered complementary disciplines, and our industry boasts countless engineers who are musicians, some semi-famous or nearly so. Not so much art and engineering, ...

The solution to this month’s puzzle explains the artful mathematics behind symmetrical patterns. Look at the family of symmetrical curves below, one of which is featured in Farris’ book as a “mystery ...

MATLAB—a math modeling software—is used to design sophisticated structures. Engineering professor Panchapakesan Venkataram found an equally creative use for the popular software: designing intricate ...

Art, the universal language, can transcend space and time to reach a diverse audience. We hear this all the time, but do we truly feel the weight of these words? A cloud of elitism envelops the “art ...

Math gets a bad rap in the creative community. To be fair, devotees of facts and figures return the compliment. They push to make S.T.E.M. (science, technology engineering and math) the heart of ...

BOSTON -- A new study finds art and music classes could help boost students' math scores. When schools are facing budget cuts, music and art classes are often the first to go. But a new study suggests ...

Bitwise XOR compares each binary digit of the two inputs. The XOR returns a 1 when only one of the two digits is a 1, otherwise, it returns a zero for that position. Let’s say the coordinates were 3, ...

In recent times, the Federal Ministry of Education has been coming up with some rather bold reforms for education in Nigeria. The latest is that Nigerian senior secondary school students in arts and ...

Mathematician Ken Ono describes how an inspiring mentor helped him redefine his relationship with numbers in this excerpt from his new book, written with mathematics writer Amir Aczel Excerpted from ...