Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

Simon Sörensen, a young engineer in Sweden, has made something that would delight Bill and Ted and Confucious equally: a kinetic art table that erases whatever pattern it itself creates. The table, ...

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Mathematicians uncovered patterns that stretch to infinity yet never repeat. Known as quasicrystals and Penrose tilings, they challenge how we think about order and chaos. Tom Phillips: Father who hid ...

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