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  1. Mathematicians have finally discovered an elusive …

    Mar 24, 2023 · Identified by David Smith, a nonprofessional mathematician who describes himself as an “imaginative tinkerer of shapes,” and reported in a paper posted online March 20 at arXiv.org, the hat is...

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  2. At Long Last, Mathematicians Have Found a Shape With a Pattern …

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  3. Newfound Mathematical 'Einstein' Shape Creates a …

    Apr 10, 2023 · Then, last November, retired printing systems engineer David Smith of Yorkshire, England, had a breakthrough. He discovered a 13-sided, craggy shape that he believed could be an einstein tile.

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  4. Newly discovered 'einstein' tile is a 13-sided shape that …

    Mar 31, 2023 · Could a single tile — one "stone" — fill a two-dimensional space without ever repeating the pattern it creates? The answer was just discovered by David Smith, a retired printing...

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  5. Hobbyist Finds Math’s Elusive ‘Einstein’ Tile | Quanta Magazine

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  6. David Smith (amateur mathematician) - Wikipedia

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  8. The Hat and the Spectre – National Museum of …

    Join all four authors of the groundbreaking paper, David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss, as they discuss their exciting mathematical discovery of the Hat, the first-ever shape that can tile the plane …

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  9. This infinite tiling pattern could end a 60-year …

    Jun 1, 2023 · David Smith, a hobbyist mathematician based in Bridlington, UK, discovered a shape that he suspected could be an aperiodic tile and, together with three professional mathematicians, Smith wrote...

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  10. A geometric shape that does not repeat itself when …

    Mar 23, 2023 · David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss have written a paper describing how they discovered the unique shape and possible uses for it.

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  11. At Long Last, Hobbyist Discovers "Einstein" Tile

    Apr 27, 2023 · In his free time, David Smith designs tiles. More specifically, the retired print technician and recreational mathematician pieces together as many tiles as he can (no gaps allowed) before the pattern either repeats or cannot …

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