Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...
The same researchers behind the 13-sided "hat" shape have stumbled upon a version that improves upon the original in a very important way. Reading time 2 minutes In March, a group of mathematicians ...
Cosmologists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: that the cosmos might fold back on itself so that, on the ...
A new study by mathematicians at Freie Universität Berlin shows that planar tiling, also known as tessellation, is far more than a decorative ...