In Darren Aronofsky's first feature film, "Pi," a number theorist begins to see mathematical patterns everywhere. Sample protagonist voice-over: "If we're built from spirals while living in a giant ...

Music and engineering are often considered complementary disciplines, and our industry boasts countless engineers who are musicians, some semi-famous or nearly so. Not so much art and engineering, ...

For Nelson Saiers, a great work of art can be one of the most mind-bending and elegant of mathematical equations. In fact, for this math whiz-turned Wall Street trader-turned full-time artist, math ...

With declining U.S. student math scores, our schools would be wise to adopt a new formula that is sure to paint a prettier picture for the country’s STEM rankings. Combining math and art classes may ...

As a mathematician, I expect that people at parties will tell me that they're no good at math. I'm used to my fellow professors confessing their ignorance of my subject. I understand that many of my ...

Mathematics and art may seem irrelevant in the world of contemporary art, in which artistic creativity takes precedence over the aesthetic ideals pursued by Renaissance artists. But French artist ...

At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both. Faye E. Goldman's origami, center, on view at the National Museum of Mathematics ...

Perhaps Robert Sikora’s unique perspective to abstract expressionism comes from his young age, or perhaps it comes from somewhere else entirely. Whatever the root, Sikora’s use of bright, faded colors ...

A recent resolution by the Nigerian government to exempt art students from mathematics, with the stated aim of easing university admission, presents a paradoxical and perilous crossroads for education ...

Sara Rezvi (@arsinoepi on twitter) is a former high school mathematics teacher, a current doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the College of Education, and the program ...