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 ...

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, ...

image: Dutch artist M.C. Escher's most famous drawing, ;Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell)', shows angels and demons in a tessellation that fills a circle without empty spaces. This masterful woodcut ...

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 ...

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 ...

A simple room refinishing project lead [Kris] to his biggest hack yet, a floor inspired by MC Escher’s Reptiles print. Maurits Cornelis Escher is well known for his reality defying artwork. His ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's not often that a legendary artist – globally adored, endlessly analysed and relentlessly reproduced – manages to keep a secret. But ...

M C Escher was acutely aware of the popularity of his prints. He recognised that in playfully “mocking all our unwavering certainties”, subverting two and three dimensions, and “poking fun at gravity” ...