Exemplified by Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Mangold, the rule-based art of the 1960s strove to achieve abstract, self-referential forms that often privileged process over content.

Sherlock Holmes, the fictional sleuth who famously resides on Baker Street, is known for his impressive powers of logical reasoning. With a quick visual sweep of a crime scene, he generates hypotheses ...

All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. Logical arguments like this one have been studied since antiquity. In the last few decades, however, logic research has changed ...