Penrose: Impossible Shapes to Nobel Prize
In 1954, Roger Penrose happened upon an exhibition of E. C. Escher in Amsterdam. It inspired him to construct the “impossible figure”, now called the Penrose Triangle or Penrose Tribar. A shape that looks like a solid three-dimensional triangular form, but that is impossible to realise in 3D Euclidean space. Penrose received half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1965 paper “Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities” showing how black holes can form.
M. C. Escher: Relativity, 1953. Lithograph 27.7 × 29.2 cm
https://thatsmaths.com/2020/10/08/from-impossible-shapes-to-the-nobel-prize/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_(M._C._Escher)
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/mc-escher-architecture-show
