A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed a mathematical framework for human color perception that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger first sketched more than a century ago.

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Interior designers reveal how they use mathematics to bring harmony to a space.

Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about. In the early 1800s, William Rowan Hamilton discovered a new kind of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Anyone in doubt that geometric patterns are back in vogue among designers need have looked no further than Design ...