The beautiful color illustration of frieze patterns above is taken from Frank A. Farris’ Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns (Princeton University Press, 2015), a math book ...

When artist and architect Rafael Araujo needs inspiration to create a new illustration ... for instance, its symmetry, elegance, beauty,” seems to follow the pattern, he says.

Patterns appeared ... rather exotic piece of mathematics appear in the real world, he adds. Although E8 does show up in string theory calculations, observing the symmetry in magnetic crystal ...