MATH 427
Tiling Theory
Last Offered Spring 2020
Division III Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

Since humans first used stones and bricks to tile the floors of their domiciles, tiling has been an area of interest. Practitioners include artists, engineers, designers, architects, crystallographers, scientists and mathematicians. This course will be an investigation into the mathematical theory of tiling. The course will focus on tilings of the plane, including topics such as the symmetry groups of tilings, the topology of tilings, the ergodic theory of tilings, the classification of tilings and the aperiodic Penrose tilings. We will also look at tilings in higher dimensions, including “knotted tilings”.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 30
Expected: 20
Class#: 3978
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: problem assignments, exams and a presentation/paper
Prerequisites: MATH 250 Linear Algebra and MATH 355 Abstract Algebra
Enrollment Preferences: senior majors, seniors, juniors, sophomores, first-year students (this is a senior seminar, one of which is required for all senior majors, so they have first preference)
Materials/Lab Fee: cost of book which will be under $50
Distributions: Division III Quantitative/Formal Reasoning

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  • MATH 427 - LEC Tiling Theory
    MATH 427 LEC Tiling Theory
    Division III Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
    Not offered

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