How one monster grows into a quarter-thousand (& counting)…!
Tag Archives: math
Escher’s “Approaches to Infinity”: There Must Be Stars
I take this passage in Escher’s essay to be particularly appropriate for comics creators:
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 … But could it be true? (Can you spot the error?)
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…