While drawing MathematiComics, I’m also adding up some links to other people’s work:

• = Keith Devlin’s column+blog
• M. C. Escher
• M. C. Escher & Hyperbolic Geometry (from Math Explorers’ Club @ Cornell.edu)
• Math & the Art of M. C. Escher  | tessellation sketches
• Jill Britton’s Escher tessellation animations! >>
•   Flatland by Edwin Abbott (1884)

• G. H. Hardy’s A Mathematician’s Apology: “The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics”

• Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament: “The first thing to understand is that MATHEMATICS is an ART. … there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.”

• LOGICOMIX by Apostolis Doxiadis

• MATH FACTOR PodCast!

• Math with Bad Drawings

• { NumberGossip. }

• NUMBERPLAY (NYTimes)

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• Roots of Unity (Scientific American Math Blog)

• 
  = Vi Hart
  + Vi Hart on youtube

• “What’s Special About This Number?”

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  = XKCD
  + what-if.xkcd.com

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Museum of Mathematics (NYC)

Mathematics + Art (Wikipedia.org)

“math+art” @ www.learnNC.org >> “visualizing” tag @ nrich.maths.org >>

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STRANGE & WONDERFUL BEASTS:

Here are some exotic creatures to spur your imagination:

•  3-Sphere
•  Alexander Horned Sphere
•  Apollonian Gaskets
•  Cantor Set
• Equilateral Triangle … ALSO: Mysteries of the Equilateral Triangle (McCartin) … Esp. “Mathematical Recreations” (p. 111)
•  Fibonacci Spiral
•  Fractals (in general) (+ Fractal Art) (+ listed by Hausdorff Dimension)
• Hypocycloids + “Rolling Hypocycloids” (Azimuth Blog)
• Infinity
•  Koch Snowflake
•  Mandelbrot Set
•  Merger Sponge
• Paradoxes (a big list)
•  Peano’s Space-Filling Curve
•  Sierpinski Carpet
•  Sierpinski Curve
•  Sierpinski Triangle
•  Tessellations.org
  METHODS: Papercut | Slide Parellelogram | Equilateral Triangle Spin Method
• The Tetractys
•  Ulam Spiral
• Whitney Music Box!
• …