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Wallpaper Patterns and Buckyballs

Professor Robin Wilson · Gresham College

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About

We are all familiar with patterned wallpaper, but how many regular patterns are there? Can you tile your bathroom floor with square, hexagonal and octagonal tiles? Footballs are made up of pentagons and hexagons, but how many pentagons are there? What are buckyballs, and what have they to do with the Montreal World Fair?

The talk

  1. Wallpaper Patterns and Buckyballs 2006-01-18 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Robin Wilson
Year
2006
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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