Journey into Maths Country
Season 2 Episode 4 - Planar Tessellations
8.5 ?
2021
Documentary
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!
Episodes in Season 2
1
The Monty Hall Problem
10 min
2
Simpson's Paradox
10 min
3
Non-Euclidean Geometries
10 min
4
Planar Tessellations
10 min
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5
Graph Theory
10 min
6
Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
10 min
7
The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
10 min
8
Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
10 min
9
Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
10 min
10
Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
10 min
