Marjorie Rice and Her Pentagonal Tilings
Proceedings of Bridges 2018: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture
Pages 1–2
Invited Papers
Abstract
The large pentagonal tiles that pave the way to the entrance of the Tekniska Museet in Stockholm may appear to be randomly placed. But they are not; they follow a definite but unusual pattern. Also unusual is the history of how the tiling came to be, and who discovered it. Marjorie Rice, who was not a professional mathematician, discovered this tiling while pursuing for years her self-assigned task of finding all types of convex pentagons that can tile the plane.