Math in the Wilds: Uncovering Hidden Patterns in Nature Scientists have long debunked the notion that natural patterns are mere product of imagination, instead revealing that many of these patterns are rooted in mathematics.
A recent example comes from researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who found that the Chinese money plant's leaves exhibit a mathematical structure known as a Voronoi diagram.
Typically associated with city planning and computer science, Voronoi diagrams describe how space is divided into separate regions around central points.