Timeline for What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
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| Feb 4, 2011 at 20:50 | comment | added | Dan Lee | The Math Midway actually already has Penrose's kite and dart tiles on magnets. (As well as interlocking money tiles.) | |
| Dec 26, 2010 at 6:17 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Ah, right, I was going to mention something about quasiperiodic tilings but forgot. Another good source of historical examples (in Islamic architecture, I think). | |
| Dec 26, 2010 at 6:13 | comment | added | Dan Petersen | Also you could let people play around with different Penrose tilings, as in, you could have a big set of plastic tiles and a big board for people to try and fail to form a periodic pattern. | |
| Dec 26, 2010 at 5:39 | history | answered | Qiaochu Yuan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |