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Explore the mind-bending and paradoxical art of M C. Escher

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A new retrospective of M.C. Escher’s work opens this week. Explore some of his most mind-bending, mathematically inspired works here, from Relativity to Waterfall.

M.C. Escher on Loneliness, Creativity, and How Rachel Carson Inspired His Art, with a Side of Bach “A person who is lucidly aware of the miracles that surround him, who has learned to bear up under the loneliness, has made quite a bit of progress on the road to wisdom.”

M.C. Escher’s 1959 woodcut Circle Limit III has the geometry of a holographic world: A whole universe fits inside a spherical surface. In holography, you can learn about what’s happening in the interior by studying the surface itself.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-builds-space-time-now-magic-gives-it-gravity-20260603/

Celebrating the birth of MC Escher

The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher Maurits Cornelis Escher (Leeuwarden, 17 /06/1898 Laren, 27/03/1972...

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