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  Gödel, Escher, Bach

  An Eternal Golden Braid

  by Douglas R. Hofstadter

  Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of the cell, if consciousness can emerge out of a formal system of firing neurons, then so too will computers attain human... (more)
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  M. C. Escher

  The Graphic Work

  by M. C. Escher

  M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita. Escher is not a... (more)
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  Mr. Peanut

  by Adam Ross

  David Pepin has loved his wife since the moment they met, and after thirteen years of marriage he still can’t imagine living without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and he’s both deeply distraught and the prime suspect. The officers investigating her death are intimately familiar with conjugal enigmas. Detective Ward Hastroll was happily, complacently married until his wife... (more)
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  The World of MC Escher

  by M. C. Escher

  In the extraordinary world of M. C. Escher time, space, and visual reality have been rearranged according to an ingenious logic - simultaneity of perspective is commonplace, space appears to be infinite, and positive and negative are interchangeable. Fascination is the result. For years, Escher's wood engravings and lithographs were prized by only a small group of admirers. Mathematicians and scientists... (more)
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  The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher

  by Bruno Ernst, M. C. Escher

  "A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, `Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it.'" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)--the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded ... (more)
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  Perspective, Tricks, Illusions: Or - Discover How Paintings Aren't Always What They Seem to Be (Magic in Art)

  by Alexander Sturgis

  Exploring the fact that all paintings create an illusion, this book shows how artists play visual tricks. The various illustrations demonstrate the use of perspective, optical illusions, anamorphisms, trompe l'oeil and op-art tricks. The practical elements of the book encourage children to become involved in the subject through the use of simple optical and magical tricks such as making ceilings and walls... (more)
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  King of Infinite Space

  Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry

  by Siobhan Roberts

  Winner of the 2009 Euler Book Prize, awarded by the Mathematical Association of America for an outstanding book about mathematics. The Euler Prize citation reads: "This book by Siobhan Roberts gives an intimate and engaging portrait of one of the most influential mathematicians of the last century. It also provides a mathematical history of those years, including the currents set in motion by Hilbert's 23... (more)
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  Adventures With Impossible Figures

  by Bruno Ernst

  Describes the methods which are used to construct intriguing impossible figures which can tease the eye and baffle the imagination. Copious examples are drawn from the author's own work and the fertile imagination of Escher and Oscare Reutersvard.
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  Escher's Loops

  by Zoran Zivkovic

  An old pro at the circularity that is the single largest distinction of Joyce’s outré masterpiece Finnegans Wake, Živkovic has written much in the spiraling, overlapping form of this book’s four “loops.” Never before, though, has his technical intent been so obvious. The similar incidents and dialectic procedures of each story in a loop essentially displace linear narrative suspense. Not that the pleasures of... (more)