Wallpaper Patterns and Buckyballs

Gresham College Lectures

Gresham College Lectures
Wallpaper Patterns and Buckyballs
Jan 18, 2006
Gresham College
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...

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