Now, my Sweeties, I want you to understand something important about the way people, who use maths, think. Nancy Clark, 11, of London, made an Einstein’s Hat hat. Garnet Frost, 70, of London made a 24-foot frieze with 1,500 ceramic tiles. Here are some of the submissions highlighted in an article by Siobhan Roberts in the New York Times ( What Can You Do With an Einstein?,):Įvan Brock, 31, Product Designer from Toronto took out one prize with his Einstein’s Hat Ravioli. ![]() A panel of judges assessed 245 submissions from 32 countries. Meanwhile, the National Museum of Mathematics ( MoMath) in New York and the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust ( UKMT) in London became so excited about this discovery, they ran a competition asking members of the public to submit creations using Einstein’s Hat. Obviously, it should be called Einstein’s Hat. The monotile is called ‘the hat’ or ‘the Einstein’. This could be the simplest example ever discovered. Mathematicians know a lot about periodic monotiles and the patterns produced by tessellating shapes such as squares on a chessboard or hexagons in a patchwork quilt (below).īut an ‘aperiodic monotile’ producing a non-repeating pattern is rare. The Red tile above shows why he called it ‘the hat’. ![]() Its mathematical name is ‘an aperiodic monotile’.ĭavid Smith, a maths hobbyist, discovered it this year, and named it ‘the Hat’. It is an asymmetrical shape that can cover any flat area in a non-repeating pattern. The Einstein or the Einstein Tile was discovered this year.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |