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Indra’s Pearls: Geometry and Symmetry

An explanation of the first computer exploration of Felix Klein's vision of fractals in the 1980s, and what mathematics has gained by it.

Between 1975 and 1989, the Polish-born expressionist artist, Feliks Topolski...

Claude Monet visited London numerous times between 1870 and 1901...

Maths can tell us unexpected things about sporting movement and...

In 1746 the great Venetian artist, Canaletto, moved to London...

The 16th Century was a great period for foreign artists...

Simple maths can reveal how energy efficient different forms of...

Everything we buy, from books to baked beans, has a...

From the 12-note music of Schoenberg, via the stochastic procedures...

Geometers study shapes and how they transform into one other...