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Episode Details: Planar Tessellations
Planar Tessellations
Series: Journey into Maths Country
Season: Season 2
Episode Number: 4
Air Date:
Duration: 10 min
A tessellation is a way of covering a plane with a repeating pattern... Basically, it's like creating wallpaper. In 1975, Marjorie Rice (1923- 2017), a mother and amateur mathematician, read an article by Martin Gardner in Scientific American that listed ALL possible "pentagonal tessellations" in the plane. A mathematician had just proved that the list was complete. Except that Marjorie, working alone at home, found 4 new ones... The theorem was wrong!
Cast and Guests
Denis van Waerebeke
Director