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me up with the idea — that honor probably goes to Charles Babbage — but he was the first to fully understan

piece of trivia links Hofstadter with Penrose: Roger Penrose and his father invented the Penrose Steps, inspiring the never- ending staircase in the Escher prints featured in Hofstadter’s book. For movie buffs, the Penrose steps appear in the film Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The fact we get pl

e off does not need to be two weeks at the beach. Charles Darwin and Benjamin Britten used to go for long w

ile, we realize there might be no solution. And indeed there is not. This is the Kochen- Specker Paradox. The odd shaped cubes on the building in the Escher print are an example of one of these impossible figures. An analogy to this problem is trying to solve a_ broken Rubik’s Cube. There is a really mis

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