Geometry, art & the imagination

Writings

A closer look at the shapes we make, the spaces they inhabit, and the people who learned to see them.

Geometry & history Essay 01

The Shape That Keeps Turning Up

How twenty-four heptagons became a meeting place for geometry, arithmetic, and an unusually human dispute over mathematical credit.

The Klein quartic · 10 minute read

Escher & perception Essay 02

Circle Limit IV turns empty space into a second population—and lets a small imperfection in symmetry carry an enormous idea.

Circle Limit IV · 5 minute read

From the page into the picture

Move through the tiling behind the Klein quartic.

Symmetry becomes fish, birds, and the spaces between them.

Branching structures in a world with room to grow.