Words + Images

This Sunday, I find myself consumed with thoughts of math, music, science, and art — and oh, what a tangled web they weave.  As I sit at the computer right now, I have open beside me a copy of Douglas Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Godel, Escher, Bach:  An Eternal Golden Braid.  On the left page is Figure 104. Castrovalva, by M.C. Escher. On the right page, a crab, tortoise and Achilles are having a conversation about mathematics.  It’s a book that I know is great, but my goodness, it does tax my brain.  In a good way. 😉