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Tile-Makers and Semi-Tile-Makers.

Authors :
Akiyama, Jin
Source :
American Mathematical Monthly. Aug/Sep2007, Vol. 114 Issue 7, p602-609. 8p.
Publication Year :
2007

Abstract

The article discusses various developments of a convex polyhedron using tilings. By cutting the surface of the polyhedron, a plane figure will result and that these cuts need not be bounded to edges but can also be made through faces. A plane figure is said to tile the plane if copies of the figure cover the plane with no gaps nor overlaps when placed end to end. A convex polyhedron P is a tile-maker if every development of P tiles the plane while P is said to be a semi-tile-maker if every edge-development of P tiles the plane. Several convex polyhedra that are considered tile-makers and a hypothesis about the convex polyhedra that could possibly be semi-tile-makers are discussed. In addition, the definition of dihedron and almost regular tetrahedron are also included.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00029890
Volume :
114
Issue :
7
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
American Mathematical Monthly
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
26209809
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2007.11920450