I take this passage in Escher’s essay to be particularly appropriate for comics creators:
Tag Archives: math
Museum Courtyard: Above & Below
It looks like we’ve learned our lesson from the last time we played on a three-dimensional staircase …
Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity” Part 2: Music & Eternity
“to approach eternity by means of sounds”…?
Hotel Infinity
“Up ahead in the distance, / I saw a shimmering light…”:
Hotel Infinity: Quiet Hours
You don’t always want to encounter infinity in a strange hotel …
2×2=5 Talkin’ Blues Video
Finally, a video version of our earlier all-comics proof …
Patterns of Ideas (Hardy)
Quoting G. H. Hardy’s 1940 essay, “A Mathematician’s Apology”…
Mathematics is an Art (Lockhart)
One reader’s notes to Paul Lockhart’s thought-provoking “A Mathematician’s Lament” …
100 Pounds of Apples
Here’s a delicious puzzle with a counter-intuitive result, based on the “potato paradox”:
Alexander Horned Steer
The final image ever captured by our late Mythematical Beasts Dept. editor …
Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity” Part 1
The first of a finite series of comics adapting Escher’s 1971 essay…
Talkin’ 2×2=5 Blues
Are we allowed to do talkin’ blues algebra proofs? ~
If NOT, maybe this is why — here’s one inspired by Lewis Carroll. ~
Goes a little like this…
