The Mathematics of Tiling

MAT 4930-2H22

Spring 2017

 

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Time:  MWF period 7

Place: 219 Little

Phone: 352-294-2339

Office: 438 Little Hall

Email: avince@ufl.edu

 

Suggested Text:

     Tilings and Patterns by Grunbaum and Shephard


Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday – period 8

     (or by appointment)

 

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Homework

The class finds the Archimedean tilings
What isometry is the composition of two translation?
What isometry is the compostion of two reflections?   (due Fri Jan 13)
List the symmetries of the square tiling.
Every convex quadrilateral admits a monohedral tiling of the plane. (due Wed Jan 18)
Show: A is closed if and only if, for each a in the complement of A there exists a disk centered at a such that D is contained  in the complement of A.
O is open if and only if O^c is closed.
The union of any number of open sets is open; the intersection of any number of closed sets is closed.
The interior of a set is open.
The closure of a set X is the intersection of all closed sets containing X. (due Wed Jan 25)
Let G be a group of symmetries of a tiling T of the plane. Call points x and y equivalent if they are in the same orbit of G. Prove that this is an equivalence relation. (due Wed Feb 1)
The set of affine functions on the plane is a group.
Describe the following transformations geometrically:  (a 0; 0 a)  and (1 1; 0 1). (due Fri Feb 3)The point “group” of a group of isometries is a group. (Due Mon Feb 6)
Describe the orbifold and give the Conway symbol for the patterns given in class. (due Fri Feb 24)
Continue to find all possible Conway symbols with total cost 2. (due Wed Mar 1)
Checkerboard domino tiling problem.
Two domino tiling problems. (due Mon after spring break)
Can a 7×10 rectangle be tiled by copies of a 2×3 rectangle?  A 17×28 rectangle by copies of a 4×7 rectangle?  A 10×15 rectangle by copies of a 1×6 rectangle?   (due Fri Mar 17)
Can a rectangular (checker) board with exactly one black and one white square removed be tiled by dominoes?  (You can use Robert’s method.)  (due Mon Mar 20)

The following are equivalent (1) n|a-b and (2) a and b have the same remainder on division by n.
Congruence modulo n is an equivalence relation, i,.e, the transitivity property holds. (due Mon Mar 20)

Domino switching problem. (due Fri Mar 25)

Postage stamp problem.
Two irreptile problems.  (due Fri Mar 31)
How many domino tilings of a 2xn rectangle?
Prove the Fibonacci identity: [f(n)]^2 – f(n-1)f(n_1) = (-1)^n.  (due Mon April 3)

 


Topics

A little history

What is a tiling?

     A little point set topology

     Normal tilings

Tiling by regular polygons

     Regular and uniform (Archimedean) tilings

     Polyominoes

     Monohedral tilings by convex polygons

The group of isometries of the plane

     The linear and affine groups

The symmetry group of a tiling

     Translations subgroup and the lattice

     The crystallographic restriction

     Periodic tiling

     Fundamental domain

Wallpaper (2-dimensional crystallographic) groups

    Conway notation

    Surfaces, Euler characteristic, and orbifolds 

    Classification of wallpaper groups

Tiling by a set P of prototiles

    Does P admit a tiling? (dominoes)

    How many tilings does P admit?

    Relationship between tilings (domino flipping)

    Tiling a rectangle by smaller rectangles

    Perfect tilings, rep-tilings, and irreptilings?

Non-periodic tiling and aperiodic prototile sets

   History: Wang tiles, aperiodic prototile sets

   The golden ratio

   Penrose tiling


Grades

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class presentations

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       Welcome to the Mathematics of Tiling

 

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