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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oxymora is a typeface that evokes the twisting, non-Euclidian geometry of MC Escher’s artwork Oxymora is a typeface that evokes the twisting, non-Euclidian geometry of MC Escher’s artwork Actually I ...

Sixty years after creating landmark works like Relativity, M.C. Escher’s impossible architecture continues to bend our minds. But what if Escher were around today? Would he still work in lithographs ...

As somebody who was a math whiz in high school and also an artist, I have always been fond of M. C. Escher's artwork. There's just something about his tessellations and topsy-turvy optical illusions ...

‘Drawing Hands’ and the illusion-inducing ‘Ascending and Descending’. These two works, which you have likely seen at least once, are both by the Dutch printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher. While the ...