Dutch artist MC Escher, featured on the wallpaper, is one of my favorite artists. I could get lost in many of his paintings, staring at the endless staircases trying to find the end! According to Wikipedia, Escher began incorporating math into his artwork around 1936. After traveling throughout the Mediterranean he wrote a paper about how to mathematically create artwork. His work with geometric shapes are playful yet mysterious (especially for me since my favorite subject was geometry)
and yet he never did well in school. The wallpaper picture I have above is titled
Relativity 1953.
But what does math have to do with patterns and art? With math we can create patterns and with patterns we can explore math. With a series of equations, a computer can create infinite patterns and designs. Or we can go to some North or West African towns and find patterns on the walls of the houses. Below are houses located in Northern Ghana.
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