A collaborative study between the University of Helsinki, Aarhus University, the National Museum of Denmark and Seattle University examined the cognitive, cultural and historical significance of ...

String figures, by W. W. R. Ball.--Methods and theories for the solution of problems of geometrical construction, by J. Petersen.--Non-Euclidean plane geometry and trigonometry, by H. S. Caŕslaw.--A ...

Maths and art go back a long way. And it’s easy to see why. Art likes patterns and mathematics is the catalogue of all possible patterns. Some of these patterns hang on walls in frames or are used for ...

KATHLEEN HADDON (Mrs. O. H. T. Rishbeth), unquestionably our foremost expert in the study of the string-figure, has published a selection of these ingenious diversions for the use of beginners ...

New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate ...