Discovery of the Aperiodic Monotile - Numberphile @numberphile
Discovery of the Aperiodic Monotile - Numberphile  @numberphile
Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
An interview with Craig Kaplan, co-discoverer of the Aperiodic Monotile - the Holy Grail of Tiling. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓

See our other video - the New Tile in Newtyle: youtu.be/ArADlJx7SlU

The first paper - An aperiodic monotile - David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss - arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10798.pdf

And the chiral follow-up - arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17743.pdf

Craig Kaplan at the University of Waterloo - cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk

David Smith blog post: hedraweb.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/its-a-shape-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it

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