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Bruno Ernst
Bruno Ernst is a pseudonym of Hans de Rijk, who was a teacher of mathematics and physics in Amersfoort (in the province of Utrecht in Netherlands). He was born in 1926 on Rotterdam and had spent 26 yers of his life in monastery. Then he rejected monk profess, had married and started to teach children in mathematics and phisics. Many years he had been directed publishing of educational magazines for children. He wrote more than one hundred books and articles about astronomy, photography, history of writing and calligraphy. Although, he was not specialist in any of these fields, he was a talanted popularizer of scientific results by various sceintists. He wrote book about impossible figures "Adventures with impossible figures" and book about mathematical art his fellow countryman M.C. Escher "Magic mirror of M.C. Escher". See also sculptures of impossible figures by Bruno Ernst.
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