Question

While examining the work of this person, Doris Schattschneider has identified colour symmetry in crystallography alongside ten other strands of mathematical and scientific research that were anticipated by their work. In the 1960s, Martin Gardner helped popularise the “eerie” work of this person in his “Mathematical Games” column for Scientific American. Roger Penrose (15[1])was inspired by this person’s work to create his (*) tribar, which this person (10[1])later utilised in a lithograph titled (10[1])Waterfall that depicts a perpetual motion machine. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1979 book, this title artist’s work was described as depicting “strange loops”. That book by Douglas Hofstadter was titled for Gödel, this artist, and Bach. For 10 points, name this Dutch artist known for drawing impossible objects and visual paradoxes. ■END■

ANSWER: M. C. Escher [or Maurits Cornelis Escher]
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