Roger Penrose's non-periodic tilings are inspiring designers too!
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The tilings and interlaced designs of medieval Islamic art command our admiration. But could a few simple geometric shapes lie behind this apparent complexity of line segments, interlacing, nested curves and polygons?
Three books to finish. Hundreds of journalists on the lookout since the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced on October 6, 2020. Yet Sir Roger Penrose, aged 89, agreed to give your favourite magazine more than three hours of his time in a video interview. With generosity, passion and enthusiasm, he tells us the story behind some of his geometric discoveries.
Sir Roger Penrose is renowned for his remarkable and foundational work in geometry and cosmology, and for the applications of that work to black holes. It is puzzling, however, that he is famous to the general public for the tiling that bears his name, with its many remarkable properties.
How did a pure mathematician trained at Cambridge come to win the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 89? This is the remarkable story of an extraordinary scientist who realized that his work in topology could help shed light on black holes.
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