Kershner [3] found three new types, and claimed a proof that the eight known types were the complete list. A article by Martin Gardner [4] in Scientific American popularized the topic, and led to a surprising turn of events.
In fact Kershner's "proof" was incorrect. After reading the Scientific American article, a computer scientist, Richard James III, found a ninth type of convex pentagon that tessellates. Not long after that, Marjorie Rice , a San Diego homemaker with only a high school mathematics background, discovered four more types, and then a German mathematics student, Rolf Stein, discovered a fourteenth type in As time passed and no new arrangements were discovered, many mathematicians again began to believe that the list was finally complete.
But in , math professor Casey Mann found a new 15th type. Recall that a regular polygon is a polygon whose sides are all the same length and whose angles all have the same measure. We have already seen that the regular pentagon does not tessellate.
We conclude:. A major goal of this book is to classify all possible regular tessellations. Apparently, the list of three regular tessellations of the plane is the complete answer. However, these three regular tessellations fit nicely into a much richer picture that only appears later when we study Non-Euclidean Geometry.
Tessellations using different kinds of regular polygon tiles are fascinating, and lend themselves to puzzles, games, and certainly tile flooring. Try the Pattern Block Exploration. An Archimedean tessellation also known as a semi-regular tessellation is a tessellation made from more that one type of regular polygon so that the same polygons surround each vertex.
We can use some notation to clarify the requirement that the vertex configuration be the same at every vertex. We can list the types of polygons as they come together at the vertex. For instance in the top row we see on the left a semi-regular tessellation with at every vertex a 3,6,3,6 configuration.
We see a 3-gon, a 6-gon, a 3-gon and a 6-gon. The other tessellations on the top row have a 3,4,6,4 , a 3,12,12 , and a 3,3,3,4,4 configuration. These configurations are unique up to cyclic reordering and possibly reversing the order. For example 3,12,12 can also be written as 12,12,3 or 12,3, In the bottom row we have 4,8,8 , 3,3,4,3,4 , 4,6,12 and 3,3,3,3,6 configurations.
This means that 3 triangles and 2 squares will give us a vertex type. In this case we can arrange these polygons around the vertex in two different ways: 3,3,3,4,4 and 3,3,4,3,4. Both of these will give rise to a semi-regular tessellation. There are only 21 combinations of regular polygons that will fit around a vertex.
And of these 21 there are there are only 11 that will actually extend to a tessellation. Below are the different vertex types.
Every kite is not a rhombus, because all sides of a kite are not equal. A kite is a quadrilateral whose four sides can be grouped into two pairs of equal-length sides that are adjacent to each other and only one pair of opposite angles are equal.
All sides of a rhombus are equal and opposite angles are equal. So, all kites are not rhombuses. A rectangle has two pairs of opposite sides parallel, and four right angles. It is also a parallelogram, since it has two pairs of parallel sides. A square has two pairs of parallel sides, four right angles, and all four sides are equal. Kites have two pairs of adjacent sides that are equal.
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Upon one of my mathematical journey's clicking through wikipedia , I encountered one of the most beautiful geometrical concept that I have ever encountered in my 16 and a half years on this oblate spheroid that we call a planet. I'm most interested in the tessellation of regular polygons and their 3D counterparts.
I've noticed that simple shapes like squares or cubes can be tessellated but not circles or spheres. Somewhere after hexagons, shapes lose that ability to be tessellated by only themselves. Although it is intuitively clear to me when shape can be tessellated, I cant put it into words. Please describe to me, in a fair amount of detail, what the lesser sided shapes had that the greater sided shapes did not inorder to be tessellated.
This condition is met for equilateral triangles, squares, and regular hexagons. You can create irregular polygons that tessellate the plane easily, by cutting out and adding symmetrically. I found some figures here though the language is Japanese. For example, you can divide a hexagon of 4 into two congruent pentagons. Second, let's see the case we can use more than two distinct polygons and its copies to tessellate the plane.
You can find helpful comments in other's answer. Also, you'll find some figures in the same page as above. For example, 3,3,3,3,6 means there exist four equilateral triangles and one hexagon at every vertex. Edit 1 : This is a question which I asked at mathoverflow. You may be interested in the question.
Fedorov found that there are exactly five 3-dimensional parallelohedra. You can see beautiful figures here. You'll be interested in these figures. It's all about angle sums. The question you are asking is by no means trivial. But you can gain some intuiton using the Euler Characteristic. A graph can be viewed as a polygon with face, edges, and vertices, which can be unfolded to form a possibly infinite set of polygons which tile either the sphere, the plane or the hyperbolic plane.
If the Euler characteristic is positive then the graph has an elliptic spherical structure; if it is zero then it has a parabolic structure, i. When the full set of possible graphs is enumerated it is found that only 17 have Euler characteristic 0. You can test the function Euler Characteristic with any polyhedron, for example. So, in some sense, it is a measure of the curvature of the space you are in. Proofs involving the Euler Characteristic can be extremely simple, but may be really complex too it is widely used in algebraic topology.
In any case, however, the function gives conditions on the polygons you are working with. I remember a very simple of proof of the fact that any polyhedron has at least a face that has 5 sides or less:.
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