Hot on the heels of the discovery of the 'one-in-a-million' shape 'Einstein' in March, a new shape called 'Spectre' might be the true owner of the title.
Back in the 1960s, mathematician Hao Wang believed that it was impossible to find a collection of shapes that could tile a plane without repeating. However, his student Robert Berger, who is now a retired electrical engineer in Lexington, Massachusetts, proved him wrong by discovering a set of 20,426 tiles that could do just that. Later, he found another set of 104 tiles.
Not wanting to leave this problem unsolved, the team kept working. They found a different shape closely related to the hat but could cover the surface without needing to be flipped over. It still did the aperiodic tiling, but now with only a single shape, no mirror images were needed.
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