The Art of Mathematics
The Art of Mathematics
Carol Jacoby
The Hat: A Newly Discovered "Ein-stein" Tessellation Tile
13 minutes Posted Jun 28, 2023 at 9:00 pm.
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Jeanne Lazzarini, who has visited us before to talk about tessellations, discusses a new mathematical discovery that even earned a mention on Jimmy Kimmel. It's a shape that can be used to fill the plane with no gaps and no overlaps and, most remarkably, no repeating patterns.