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The Math Behind the Music

will be of interest to musicians, mathematicians and marketicians... Review by Victor Niederhoffer, Daily Speculations
Cambridge University Press, May 2006 , Leon Harkleroad, John Barrow (Editor), Ronald Graham (Editor)

Decagonal and Quasi-Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture

The conventional view holds that girih (geometric star-and-polygon, or strapwork) patterns in medieval Islamic architecture were conceived by their designers as a network of zigzagging lines, where the lines were drafted directly with a straightedge and a compass. We show that by 1200 C.E. a conceptual breakthrough occurred in which girih patterns were reconceived as tessellations of a special set of equilateral polygons (“girih tiles”) decorated with lines.
Science 23 February 2007: Vol. 315. no. 5815, pp. 1106 - 1110 , Peter J. Lu and Paul J. Steinhardt

Towing Icebergs

The main point of Towing Icebergs, Falling Dominoes, and Other Adventures in Applied Mathematics, is that mathematics is a language that can describe, measure, and help inform us about everyday points of human activity. Review by Victor Niederhoffer, Daily Speculations
Princeton University Press - November 1998 , Robert B. Banks