Arts & artists...

         

Mathematical art

 

Fractals are the most wonderful way of expressing the beauty of mathematics...and a pattern often shown in biological growth. The misleading impression of chaotic structure is forced into a specific shape through its basic mathematical equation. Marvellous!

 

'Sunflower Paradise' by Gregory Sams

 

 

Brassica oleracea, a natural fractal

 

 

 

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

Who doesn't know Escher...

for more information see the Official M.C.Escher Website or the University page of Leiden or St Andrews.