# Wallpaper Patterns and Buckyballs

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Robin Wilson
- Year: 2006
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/wallpaper-patterns-and-buckyballs)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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?

## Lectures

1. [Wallpaper Patterns and Buckyballs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/wallpaper-patterns-and-buckyballs/7ab157e7b59b) (YouTube)