Look carefully! Mathematicians have invented a new 13-sided shape that can be tiled infinitely without ever repeating a pattern. They call it "the einstein." For decades, mathematicians wondered if it ...
NORTH WALES — As the sun slid behind the roof of North Wales Elementary School on a steamy afternoon, kindergartner Max Andrews and his mom Leah walked over to the most famous wall in town. A few ...
How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...