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, ...

Come be mystified by M. C. Escher's mathematical, impressive, and impossible prints. Come be mystified by M. C. Escher's mathematical, impressive, and impossible-looking prints. Created by NJTV in ...

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 ...

Here’s a show that’s certain to give Brooklyn some perspective: A massive exhibition of the mathematically infused artworks of M.C. Escher (1898–1972) is coming to the borough in June. “Escher. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater. But there ...

Let there be no mistake about it. Many of the pictures that now routinely appear in print are no more than pictorial aids to reasoning, graphical sketches intended to suggest or persuade rather than ...