Honeycombs, some bathroom floors and designs by artist M.C. Escher have something in common: they are composed of repeating patterns of the same shape without any overlaps or gaps. This type of ...

A new retrospective of M.C. Escher’s work opens this week. Explore some of his most mind-bending, mathematically inspired works.

As somebody who was a math whiz in high school and also an artist, I have always been fond of M. C. Escher's artwork. There's just something about his tessellations and topsy-turvy optical illusions ...

Water pours over a ledge before appearing to flow back to the same ledge it just fell over. Graphic artist M.C. Escher creates this image in his popular 1961 piece "Waterfall," one of more than 150 of ...