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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:33:34 EST
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- From: Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Gleanings (76
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- Posted on 26 Jan 1993 at 09:09:53 by samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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- >> 9) Roger Penrose (Tushar)
- >
- >Physicist at Oxford. Did work in relativity, cosmology etc,
- >also interested in silly math problems and games. Succesfully
- >conned (I think) the public by writing "The Emperor's New
- >Mind".
-
- Was probably the first to draw the 'impossible triangle', on which
- several of Escher's works (e.g. Waterfall) are based.
-
- > Escher was famous as a graphic
- >artist who produced weird pictures, like drawing hands, mobius
- >ant, belvedere, and other pictures which you can see on the T-
- >shirt of every well-dressed geek. I think I was referring to the
- >never-ending staircase (or some such name), which by an odd co-
- >incidence was suggested to Escher by Penrose.
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- A number of Escher's works are based, notwithstanding his self-
- proclaimed ignorance of mathematics, on suggestions by well known
- mathematicians. H.S.M. Coxeter evidently explained how to do the
- circle limit stuff.
-
- Tony H.
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