The university community is invited to hear from Peter Lu, a physicist at Harvard University, about the mathematics underlying the patterns of medieval Islamic art. His lecture is titled “Girih Tiles: ...
Somewhere between the amorphous glasses and the rigidly regimented periodic crystals lie the quasicrystals: ordered, predictable, yet non-periodic arrangements of atoms. How do these strange ...
Girih Tiles: Decagonal Geometry in Medieval Islamic Architectural Tilings and Beyond Location: Cleveland Museum of Art, Recital Hall, 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 The conventional view ...