How a Hobbyist Solved a 50-Year-Old Math Problem (Einstein Tile)

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*Sources and further reading*
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17743
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/spectre/

Chapters
0:00 – 0:49 Introducing a NEW SHAPE
0:49 – 2:20 Never repeating pattern
2:20 – 3:16 The 50 year old mystery
3:16 – 5:03 An amazing discovery
5:03 – 10:10 How do we know it never repeats?
10:10 – 11:40 Infinitely many ein stein tiles!
11:40 – 12:39 "Haters gonna hate"
12:39 – 15:01 An indisputable ein stein tile
15:01 – 16:04 Applications
16:04 – 17:59 Learn more about tilings

Creator – Jade Tan-Holmes
Script – Simon Mackenzie and Jade Tan-Holmes
Animations by Tom Groenestyn
Music – epidemicsound.com