A tessellation is a way of covering a plane with a repeating pattern... Basically, it's like creating wallpaper. In 1975, Marjorie Rice (1923- 2017), a mother and amateur mathematician, read an article by Martin Gardner in Scientific American that listed ALL possible "pentagonal tessellations" in the plane. A mathematician had just proved that the list was complete. Except that Marjorie, working alone at home, found 4 new ones... The theorem was wrong!
| Title | Journey into Maths Country - Season 2 Episode 4 : Planar Tessellations |
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| Alternative Titles | Short Trips in the Land of Math |
| First Air Date | 2021-09-23 |
| Last Air Date | 2023-10-10 |
| Number of Episodes | 20 |
| Number of Seasons | 2 |
| Genres | Documentary, |
| Networks | arte.tv, |
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| Plot Keywords | , |
Episodes List
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 1 The Monty Hall Problem The Monty Hall Problem
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 2 Simpson's Paradox Simpson's Paradox
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 3 Non-Euclidean Geometries Non-Euclidean Geometries
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 4 Planar Tessellations Planar Tessellations
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 5 Graph Theory Graph Theory
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 6 Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes Alicia Boole in the Land of Polytopes
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 7 The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs The Kepler Conjecture, or How to Store Your Cannonballs
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 8 Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder Chaos Theory or Order in Disorder
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 9 Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin Kovaleskaya's Spinning Top or The Best Way to Spin
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
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Journey into Maths Country Season 2 :Episode 10 Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics? Entscheidungsproblem: The End of Mathematics?
2023-10-10Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we...
