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Roger Penrose: A look at the other side of the 2020 Nobel Prize winner – Patterns of Penrose – Economic Times
Roger Penrose — the English mathematical physicist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery that black hole formation “is a robust predictio…
Penrose tiling is reminiscent of girih the geometric patterns used in Islamic architecture. Islamic architects werecreating quasi-crystalline patterns some 500 years before similar patterns were described in the West, claimed twophysicists Peter J Lu of Harvard University and Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University. The 15th century artisansused complex mathematics to create geometric patterns that adorn mosques, palaces and other buildings.Danny Shechtman at Israels Technion University showed t…
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