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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

The first level pack for one of iOS’s best-designed games is here, and it’s enough to give even M.C. Escher a hard time. Crossing a level is no longer just about perspective; it’s about figuring out ...

For most of his adult life, Mick Jagger has probably only rarely heard the word “no” in response to any of his requests. But he heard it at least twice from Maurits Cornelis Escher, the graphic artist ...

M.C. Escher is well known for his surreal, reality-warping engravings -- two hands drawing each other, infinite staircases, fish changing into birds and back again. Never an art-world celebrity, he ...