So how do you visualize infinity?
First, let's introduce a legend - Escher
M.C. Escher (1898~1972), the Dutch master of scientific thinking printmaking, a unique artist in the 20th century.
His works are characterized by flat tessellations, impossible structures, paradoxes, cycles, etc., from which one can see the graphic expression of mathematical concepts such as fractals, symmetry, hyperbolic geometry, polyhedra, topology, and so on, which are both artistic and scientific.
We have mentioned his fantastic work "Waterfall" ("A work of art with a devil's pace, some people say it's a square dance")
"Waterfall"
It's not too much to say that he's a master of mathematics, and part of his work uses the concept of "infinity" in mathematics.
Butterflies
Butterflies is a pattern that fits the image of butterflies towards the edge of the picture, and then towards the middle of the picture, it slowly becomes an abstract pattern, which is gradually blurred and converges into a point of light, and you can't find the end of the pattern.
"Limit Circle III"
"Limit Circle III" is the opposite of the previous picture, the smaller it gets towards the edge, like it is attached to a sphere, and it vividly shows the concept of infinity, as if you can see the end, but you have no way of knowing.
The Serpent
The Serpent is neither purely Robachevs nor purely Riemannian, but an organic combination of the two. The Serpent traverses both spaces.
It reminds me of Tai Chi, the I Ching: "Yi has Tai Chi, which gives birth to the two yi, the two yi gives birth to the four elephants, and the four elephants give birth to the eight trigrams."
One is two, two is three, three is everything, and some things in the world are just connected.
This is all we have to share with you today, let's continue in the next installment.
Not only is there art here,
there is also your story.
See you in the next installment.