I am looking for a math text I read when I was younger that had MC Escher's 'horsemen' tessellation on the cover. One of the Horsemen was colored red and the others in grey and white. As I remember, the book covered a wide variety of topics. The only two chapters in it that I remember are conics and billiards.
If anyone knows the title of this book, I would greatly appreciate if you could help me remember this gem!
It is Mathematics, a Human Endeavor, by Harold Jacobs. The edition that has the red horseman is the second edition. Your memory is correct, the front cover has a single red, the rest beige (but I am not a reliable reporter of colour) and white. The back cover has horsemen also, none red.
The third edition front cover has another Escher tessellation, birds. I believe there have been a number of editions since then. I only have the two editions mentioned.
