Researchers say that the iconic painting's swirling sky lines up with Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence, suggesting that the ...
In the 1940s, a Russian mathematician named Andrey Kolmogorov laid out an important law of fluid dynamics that explains how ...
Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out ...
Impressionist's best-known masterpieces, famous for its dreamy swirling evocation of the landscape he saw from the window of ...
A new study suggests Vincent van Gogh showed a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulence in ...
Researchers believe van Gogh spent enough time observing nature that he began to intuitively understand how turbulence ...
When Vincent van Gogh painted “ The Starry Night ” 135 years ago, he captured a subjective feeling about the heavens. But, as ...
Turbulence abounds in nature, from the spinning whorls of hurricanes to the brilliant swirls of Jupiter's immense storms. Astronomers have even observed it where stars are born in the vast maelstrom ...
"Vincent van Gogh, as one of the most notable post-impressionist painters, had a very careful observation of turbulent flows: ...