Achieving the Unachievable

Duration: 52 min
Release date: 2007-09-01
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M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted master-piece quickly became the most puzzling enigma of modern art. Fifty years later, can mathematician Hendrik Lenstra complete it? Should he?

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Achieving the Unachievable

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