U.S. backed fighters have breached the ancient wall of the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital, the Syrian city of Raqqa, marking new progress in the battle to rout the militants from their ...

which it portrays as pre-ordained in Islamic texts. That an ancient prophecy prompted a strategic battlefield shift some 1400 years after it was relayed shows how apocalyptic ideas have fuelled ...

The patterns on the Islamic buildings reminded him ... they could have covered an arbitrarily large wall with a Penrose tiling. Lu has a history of finding math wherever he looks.

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“The work deals with the theory of ellipses, parabolas, and hyperbolas – the curves which you can see if you shine a flashlight on a wall ... triumph of history, the Islamic Golden Age.