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Children’s blocks lie scattered on the floor. You start playing with them—squares, rectangles, triangles and hexagons—moving them around, flipping them over, seeing how they fit together.

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 ...

This is one simple example of a tiling of the line that has translational symmetry. In two dimensions, there are many familiar examples of tilings of the plane that have this property as well. In each ...

the type of plane used on the the fatal Jeju Air Flight 7C2216. The Boeing 737-800 is one of the world’s most commonly used ...

His proof closes the field of convex polygons that tile the plane at 15 pentagons, three types of hexagons — all identified by Reinhardt in his 1918 thesis — and all quadrilaterals and triangles. (No ...

"Up in Buffalo, New York," Dowling said. "So, it’s been a good 16 years." Here are the most recent deadly plane crashes in the U.S., according to the Associated Press: Feb. 12, 2009: A Colgan ...

Metcalf and Jubran will investigate fractal tilings of the plane in their research this summer. A tiling of the plane is a countable family of tiles without gaps and without any overlapping of the ...

The recently discovered “hat” aperiodic monotile admits tilings of the plane, but none that are periodic [SMKGS23]. This polygon settles the question of whether a single shape—a closed topological ...

The problem of filling a plane with identical tiles has been so ... But the researchers deduced the principles of tilings with a new set of geometric building blocks that have rounded corners ...

Consider the ceramic on the floor beneath you. Those squares or rectangles tile the plane. That's a mathematical term, and finding a new shape that covers a flat surface using only exact copies of ...