However, examination of medieval Islamic decorations, called girih patterns, reveal plenty of five and ten-fold symmetric patterns that, apparently, do tile a surface. For the simpler patterns ...

Medieval Islamic designers used elaborate geometrical tiling patterns at least 500 years before Western mathematicians developed the concept. The geometric design, called “girih”, was widely ...

It was previously thought that to create the complex patterns, the medieval Muslim artists had nothing more than a compass and a straightedge at their disposal. Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt say ...

The swirling Arabesque ceramic tiles used in medieval Islamic mosaics and architecture were produced using geometry not understood in the West until the 1970s, a new study suggests. The inlaid ...

To that end, we are compiling a database of medieval medical recipes. By revealing patterns in medieval medical practice, our database could inform future laboratory research into the materials ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical breakthrough 500 years earlier than Western ...

The authors analyzed data from 173 medieval cities from across Western Europe, finding that these data show statistically indistinguishable community grouping patterns among medieval capital ...

“These models use the pattern of the observed evidence to estimate what we’re not seeing,” study co-author Daniel Sawyer, a medieval English literature expert at the University of ...