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Medieval Islamic tiling reveals mathematical savvy If you google my name, you get the MURC bookstall, a fine institution I ran whilst an undergraduate. Behind me, on a weekly basis was a glass cabinet with Penrose tiles. I was mesmerised. No repeats? Wow. He had invented and patented non-repeating quasi crystalline tiling. Oxford is so [...]

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