Friedrich Haag (20 August 1856 – 8 December 1941) was a pioneering German
crystallographer.
An article written by Haag in the ''
:de:Zeitschrift für Kristallographie'' (a German crystallography journal) was used by
M. C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made Mathematics and art, mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithography, lithographs, and mezzotints.
Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for ...
in his study of
tessellation
A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called ''tiles'', with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of g ...
.
[ Doris Schattschneiderbr>''The Mathematical Side of M. C. Escher'', Notices AMS, June/July 2010, p. 707]
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References
External links
* :de:Friedrich Haag (Kristallograph) (on German Wikipedia)
Crystallographers
1856 births
1941 deaths
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