‘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 ...

The Escher Loop optical illusion creates a staircase that appears endlessly climbable yet never reaches a higher point. Using ...

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 ...

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, ...

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THE universe may have the same surreal geometry as some of art’s most mind-boggling images. That’s the upshot of a study by the world’s most famous living scientist, Stephen Hawking of the University ...