When Peter J. Lu traveled to Uzbekistan, he had no idea of the mathematical journey that he was about to embark on as well. The Harvard graduate student in physics was fascinated by the beautiful and ...

A scientist from the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates has arrived at a new method that may help craftsmen to simulate and produce immeasurable numbers of stunning patterns of ...

The complex geometrical designs used centuries ago in Islamic art and architecture were planned with a tiling system that was not discovered in the West until five centuries later, two physicists have ...

The photography of Peter Lu will be celebrated at an opening reception for "Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings & Beyond" Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 3 p.m. in the ...