The Art of Mathematics

The Hat: A Newly Discovered "Ein-stein" Tessellation Tile

Jun 28, 2023 · 13 min · 13.3 MB
0:00-13:41

Streams straight from the publisher. podnod never proxies or re-hosts episode audio.

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.