Escher and Coxeter - a Mathematical Conversation

Gresham Lecture

Escher and Coxeter - a Mathematical Conversation

Monday 5 June 2017 - 13.00 to 14.00
Museum of London

A public lecture will be presented at the Museum of London on the topic "Escher and Coxeter - a Mathematical Conversation" by Professor Sarah Hart. This lecture is presented by Gresham College.

The artist M.C. Escher’s work often used ingenious tilings of the plane with interlocking figures such as fish and birds. Although these tilings could in principle extend forever, Escher could not show this on a finite picture. But a diagram from a paper by the mathematician Donald Coxeter presented one solution to this conundrum. We will look at the mathematics of this diagram and how Escher used it. We will also see how Coxeter produced mathematical research based on aspects of Escher's work.

No reservations are required for this lecture. It will be run on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the lecture.