In stretches of intricate tiling on several 500-year-old Islamic buildings, Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt wrote, they'd spotted a large fragment of a mathematical pattern that was unknown to Western ...

WASHINGTON – Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years. Historians have long ...

Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical advance 500 years earlier than Western scholars, scientists say. By the ...

Centuries ago, a prestigious Islamic library brought Arabic numerals to the world. Though the library long since disappeared, its mathematical revolution changed our world. The House of Wisdom sounds ...

Murder, torture, and rape? Halal. Math, social studies, sports, and music? Haram, according to the group which calls itself the Islamic State (formerly ISIS, ISIL, or QSIS, depending on whom you ask).

The gender gap in math scores, particularly at the high end of the distribution, has been well documented and debated, with some suggesting that genetics might be a big reason for the differences we ...

Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical advance 500 years earlier than Western scholars, scientists say. By the ...