Escher, who had been very fond of and inspired by the landscapes in Italy, was decidedly unhappy in Switzerland, and in 1937, the family moved again, to Uccle, a suburb of Brussels, Belgium.

* Graphic artist M. C. Escher moved to Arnhem when he was five and spent most of his youth there.

In 1901, Queen Emma moved to Lange Voorhout Palace, today's Escher Museum, while Queen Wilhelmina and her husband Prince Hendrik remained at Noordeinde.

When the family moved into the house in 1831, Heinrich Escher was able to devote himself fully to his passion for botany and his entomological collection.

Alfred Escher was initially buried in the Enge cemetery, but when that was deconsecrated in 1925 his remains were moved to the Manegg cemetery.

That same year, the Eames Foundation hired Los Angeles architectural firm Escher GuneWardena to develop a plan for the house, one that would restore and preserve the house as it was in 1988.

Fortunately, German publisher Benedikt Taschen purchased the house in 2000 and restored it in collaboration with architects Frank Escher and Ravi Gunewardena, earning them an award from the Los Angeles Conservancy.

* An extension of the fight in the Merovingian's chateau, where Neo must solve a series of puzzles in the house ( reminiscent of M. C. Escher surrealism ) as well as battle in several fights.

The Board of Directors includes one voting representative from each house ( including Escher ), the chairpersons of standing committees ( non-voting ), and the General Manager ( non-voting ).

« Neuberg », the house where Escher was born on Zurich ’ s Hirschengraben

Alfred Escher spent the first years of his childhood in the house where he was born, the « Neuberg » on Hirschengraben in Zurich.

Heinrich Escher had a country house built on the left shore of Lake Zurich in the village of Enge ( now part of the city of Zurich ).

World War II forced them to move in January 1941, this time to Baarn, the Netherlands, where Escher lived until 1970.

* M. C. Escher lived and worked in Baarn from 1941 to 1970

During this period Alfred Escher was taught at home by various tutors, including the theologian Alexander Schweizer, and Oswald Heer, who was to become a paleo-botanist and entomologist.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979.

After his journey to the Alhambra, Escher tried to improve upon the art works of the Moors using geometric grids as the basis for his sketches, which he then overlaid with additional designs, mainly animals such as birds and lions.

A planned series of lectures in North America in 1962 was cancelled due to an illness, but the illustrations and text for the lectures, written out in full by Escher, were later published as part of the book Escher on Escher.

" The most notable aberration, however, is Stearns Hall, which has been described as " Barbie meets Escher " for its angular, post-modern style and its shrunken scale ( it is supposedly built at 90 % of scale, an idea supported by the feeling of claustrophobia often encountered there ).

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

Gödel, Escher, Bach won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction

* In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter explains how Shepard scales can be used on the Canon a 2, per tonos in Bach's Musical Offering ( called the Endlessly Rising Canon by Hofstadter ) for making the modulation end in the same pitch instead of an octave higher.

Escher helpfully points out that in order to keep the wheel turning some water must occasionally be added to compensate for evaporation.

Escher used these types of figures as the basis for impossible three-dimensional compositions in many of his woodcut prints.

Escher for Belvedere, a lithograph in which a boy seated at the foot of the building holds an impossible cube.

Inspired by M. C. Escher, he designed abstract landscapes for the courses.

* M. C. Escher, Dutch artist known for his mathematically inspired works

* Escher Web Sketch, a java applet with interactive tools for drawing in all 17 plane symmetry groups

Throughout the 1960s, Reutersvärd sent several letters to Escher to express his admiration for his work, but the Dutch artist failed to respond.

Some Escher graphics are based on them ( for the disc model of hyperbolic geometry ).

* Frieden, B. Roy, " Fisher Information, a New Paradigm for Science: Introduction, Uncertainty principles, Wave equations, Ideas of Escher, Kant, Plato and Wheeler.

* B. Roy Frieden, " Fisher Information, a New Paradigm for Science: Introduction, Uncertainty principles, Wave equations, Ideas of Escher, Kant, Plato and Wheeler.

This came to the notice of Arnold Escher von der Linth, to whom Heim was indebted for much encouragement and geological instruction in the field.

While not Escher ’ s most artistically important works, some of these patterns are among Escher ’ s most famous, having been used for a number of commercial products, including neckties.

Other artists than Escher, including Jos De Mey, have also made artworks featuring the impossible cube.

Inspired by artists and scientists alike, Schuiten's work can be considered to mix the mysterious worlds of René Magritte, the early scientific fantasies of Jules Verne, the graphical worlds of M. C. Escher and Gustave Doré, and the architectural visions of Victor Horta and Étienne-Louis Boullée.

While most two-dimensional artists use relative proportions to create an illusion of depth, Escher here and elsewhere uses conflicting proportions to create a visual paradox.

The town has served historically as a destination for artists, musicians, and writers, including Richard Wagner, Edvard Grieg, M. C. Escher, Giovanni Boccaccio, Virginia Woolf, Greta Garbo, Gore Vidal, André Gide, Joan Mirò, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Graham Greene, Leonard Bernstein and Sara Teasdale ( who mentioned it in her prefatory dedication in Love Songs ).

The young couple settled down in Rome where their first son, Giorgio ( George ) Arnaldo Escher, named after his grandfather, was born.

M. C. Escher − Drawing Hands, 1948A strange loop, technically called tangled hierarchy consciousness, arises when, by moving only upwards or downwards through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back where one started.

The high concentration of magical lore has warped the Library interior into a locus of L-Space where the concepts of distance and direction are only vaguely defined ( it is generally described as resembling an M. C. Escher pastiche of the Bodleian or the British Museum Reading Room ).

The statesman, scientist, painter and manager Conrad Escher ( later named " von der Linth ") from Zurich developed and executed the plan of channeling the Linth into Lake Walen, where the gravel could be deposited without damage.

So, much like an Escher drawing where water flows constantly downhill yet eventually reaches the top of the falls again, Albee has created a scene that goes continually forward and yet returns to where it began.