A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of botanical figures were far more than decorative; they were mathematical.

Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical techniques to describe real-world systems and solve technologically relevant problems. This can include the mechanics of a moving body, the ...

In recent years several techniques have been proposed for modelling the low-dimensional manifolds, or `subspaces’, of natural images. Examples include principal component analysis (as used for ...