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After the description of quasicrystals in the submitted piece, I found this paragraph on the author's wikipedia page [1] quite interesting: > Peter J. Lu and S

by oska 8y ago

After the description of quasicrystals in the submitted piece, I found this paragraph on the author's wikipedia page [1] quite interesting: > Peter J. Lu and Steinhardt discovered a quasicrystalline Islamic tiling on the Darb-e Imam Shrine (1453 A.D.) in Isfahan, Iran constructed from girih tiles. [2] In 2007, they revealed a conceptual breakthrough that enabled early artists to create increasingly complex periodic girih patterns over a period of centuries, culminating in a nearly perfect quasi-crystalline Penrose pattern five centuries before their discovery in the West. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Steinhardt#Other_contributions_to_the_field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Steinhardt#Other_contribu... [2] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5815/1106 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5815/1106

agumonkey 8y ago
not long ago there was an article about Leibniz inspiration through geomancy. Which was also used for ages by humans, albeit not in a mathematical rigor setting. That led me to some rant, I think most of the core of mathematics is absolutely natural to the layman of any place in space and time. Simplicity and regularity is quite obvious to any body, but the education systems blurs that off mathematics. Only advanced research can reconnect the two sadly.