For people like herself, says Anneke Bart, math is like a puzzle. “We sit around and play with pictures and dink around,” says the professor of mathematics. That’s how, faced with a tough question, ...

In the 1960s, the mathematically inspired images of Dutch artist M.C. Escher became a feature of popular culture. I remember album covers, T-shirts, posters and jigsaw puzzles emblazoned with the ...

In this video, Professor Ian Stewart of Warwick University explores the mathematical influences in the works of Dutch artist M. C. Escher. “If you wander around university mathematics departments, you ...

M.C. Escher — he of never-ending stairwells, fish morphing into flowers, hands drawing one another, expert use of glass globes, and math-minded imagineer of infinite nesting universes — is an iconic ...

M C Escher fuses maths with art as he turns the principle of tessellation in to graphic art, later expanding into works that explore dimensions, infinity, and illogical physics, such as the Impossible ...

The Dutch printmaker Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972) followed in historical foundational art footsteps. His preoccupation with perspective was like that of the Renaissance; his ...

A documentary examines the methods and interests of this Dutch printmaker, who felt his work was also indebted to mathematics. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

During his lifetime, famed graphic artist M.C. Escher explored the concepts of mathematical infinity and impossible geometry in a series of wood prints, lithographs, and mezzotints. One thing Escher ...

Staircases that lead to an infinite loop, divisions of plane into imaginative space, and hands that draw themselves—these are some of the images we associate with M.C. Escher. His inventive and ...

As if it wasn’t already abundantly clear, humanity tends to divide the world through binary systems. Self and other, this not that, grilled or fried, life becomes much easier when reduced to dualism.