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White to move and mate in two #524 - M. C. Escher [1]

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Date: 2024-06-18  

Happy 126th Birthday to Maurits Cornelis Escher, born on June 17, 1898, in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands. M.C. Escher needs no introduction, neither does his art, so we reminisce today about this great artist’s life and his works with some of his works posted on twitter.

Escher’s interest in the mathematics of tessellation were rooted in his travels in 1922 and 1936 through Italy and Spain, and by the Moorish architecture of the fourteenth-century Alhambra which were based on geometrical symmetries featuring interlocking repetitive patterns in the colored tiles or sculpted into the walls and ceilings.

Escher was left-handed.

Escher died on 27 March 1972.

Here is a look at a few of his popular works.

Waterfall

x #OTD in 1898, the great graphic artist M.C. Escher was born. He made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, etc.

"We adore chaos because we love to produce order."

- Escher



Img: Waterfall,1961. Perpetual motion machine with #Penrose triangles#iteachmath#scritturebrevi pic.twitter.com/JNh13Qijmc — Nereide (@Nereide) June 17, 2020

Circle Limit (and fractals)

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Among Escher's works, the visual example that comes closest to the concept of fractals is the set of works called "Circle Limit".



For example, Circle Limit III is the artistic depiction of the Poincarè model.



- https://t.co/vVEk9eRhHK pic.twitter.com/rqsDWqHSE8 — Nereide (@Nereide) June 15, 2021

Relativity

Other World

Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture by Roger Penrose and Jon Chapman -

Today’s puzzle was composed in 1884 by J. Oxley in Lett's Household Magazine, for which he received £1 as prize money.

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