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How to play mathematics - essay on pervasiveness of math in the nature - gives it's due to PC and multiculturalism:

It took a woman, the mathematician Daina Taimina at Cornell University, to discover hyperbolic crochet and to give mathematicians a tangible model of this form.

A beautiful example of mathematical pattern-play can be seen with the great Islamic mosaicists who decorated mosques and palaces such as the Alhambra Palace in Granada ... Long before European geometers...

Proof that studying equations isn’t the only path to mathematical insight also comes to us from Africa, where craftsmen discovered fractals centuries ago.

see also Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. and The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences