The math is what keeps me quilting, without it I'd be bored to tears. I tutored it in HS, started out majoring in it in college (later switched), was an accountant all my working life, seek out Numb3rs reruns on cable...love it all. Math quilts, fractal quilts, tessellating quilts, optical quilts...those are my favorites to design and create. As for the comment about art quilts...many successful art quilters have a very solid background in math and/or science.
Elaine Ellison does amazing math quilts.
http://www.mathematicalquilts.com/Ma...s_-_Image.html
http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/ex...eellisonelaine