Post #4137 1.44K Dec 17, 2022, 13:30 UTC Forwarded from Непрерывное математическое образование https://www.quantamagazine.org/nasty-geometry-breaks-decades-old-tiling-conjecture-20221215/ Quanta Magazine ‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture | Quanta Magazine Mathematicians predicted that if they imposed enough restrictions on how a shape might tile space, they could force a periodic pattern to emerge. But they were wrong.