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Medieval Islamic Geometry

Medieval Islamic Geometry

Decagonal and Quasicrystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture

Soft-matter and Colloid Physics

Soft-matter and Colloid Physics

High-performance Imaging

High-performance Imaging

Ancient Chinese Technology

Ancient Chinese Technology

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Featured Publications

"Gelation of particles with short-range attraction" Nature (2008)

"Decagonal and Quasi-crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic Architecture" Science (2007)

"Early Precision Compound Machine from Ancient China" Science (2004)

"The blossoming of Japanese mathematics" Nature (2008)

"Natural Quasicrystals" Science (2009)

Press

"Top 100 Science Stories of 2007: 59. Medieval Mosque Shows Amazing Math Discovery", Discover

"In Medieval Architecture, Signs of Advanced Math", The New York Times

"Higher Math From Medieval Islam", Newsweek

"Amazing maths of the mosaic makers", The Times [UK]

"Il segreto dell’architettura islamica medioevale `Usa formule matematiche del XX secolo'", La Repubblica [Italy]

"Puzzle der Unendlichkeit", Die Zeit [Germany]

"Patterns of Islamic Genius Crystal Clear Centuries Ago", Sydney Morning Herald [Australia]

"Earliest use of diamonds by Chinese found", China Daily

"The Tiles of Infinity", Saudi Aramco World

Peter J. Lu | Harvard University | Cambridge, MA 02138 USA | plu_at_fas.harvard.edu