Suggestions:

• There are lots of topics related to math and art other than Escher. A successful project will explain at least one new mathematical idea. Make sure that there is math as well as art in your project.
• If your topic is Escher, either focus on hyperbolic geometry (some information in 4.6) or symmetry and tesselations (some info in 4.4). There is also information about symmetry and tesselations in Excursions in Modern Mathematics, For All Practical Purposes, and Life Beyond the Numbers. Again, make sure you investigate at least one new mathematical idea. Make sure your project is more than a collection of Escher's artwork.

• Math Awareness Month (lots of resources and links)
• The following books are in the library:
  • Escher : the complete graphic work
  • M.C. Escher, art and science : proceedings of the International Congress on M.C. Escher, Rome, Italy, 26-28, March 1985
  • Visions of symmetry : notebooks, periodic drawings, and related work of M.C. Escher / text and comentary by Doris Schattschneider.
  • "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid" by Hofstadter
  • Excursions in Modern Mathematics by Tannenbaum and Arnold (on reserve)
  • For All Practical Purposes by COMAP (on reserve)
  • Mathematics Beyond the Numbers by Gilbert and Hatcher (on reserve)
• Pathways between Mathematics and the Arts (from a course at UNH)
• M.C. Escher Foundation
• Mathematical Art of M.C. Escher
• Symmetry in the plane
  • Four types of symmetry in the plane
• Tesselations
  • What is a tesselation?
  • Totally Tesselated
• Brief description of hyperbolic geometry and Poincare disk model

Last modified: 4/21/03