Mathematical paradoxes & ambigrams: New article

by | Tuesday, April 07, 2015

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I have always loved paradoxes so it is with great pleasure that the fourth article in our series on Art and Math (co-authored with my friend Gaurav Bhatnagar and published by At Right Angles) focuses on paradoxes and visual wordplay. It was great fun coming up with a range of designs on this topic — in fact we had so much material that we had to break it down into two articles.

You can download all of the articles in the series Of Art & Math by following the links below

  1. Introducing Ambigrams: Blog post | Direct link to PDF
  2. Symmetry: Blog post | direct link to PDF
  3. Self-Similarity: Direct link to PDF
  4. Paradoxes (Part 1): Direct to link to PDF
Topics related to this post: Ambigrams | Art | Creativity | Design | Fun | Mathematics | Personal | Publications | Puzzles | Representation | Worth Reading

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