Mathematics and art are generally viewed as very different disciplines – one devoted to abstract thought, the other to feeling. But sometimes the parallels between the two are uncanny. From Islamic ...

Abstract: The "positroid stratification" of the Grassmannian of k-planes in n-space, studied by Lusztig, Postnikov, and many others, stands in between the (beautiful) Bruhat decomposition and the ...

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A study of medieval Islamic art has shown some of its geometric patterns use principles established centuries later by modern mathematicians. Researchers in the US have found 15th Century examples ...