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My Undercover Mission to Find Cairo Tilings

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  1. David Bailey. Cairo Tiling. Available at http://www.tess-elation.co.uk/cairo-tiling.

  2. Ping Ngai Chung, Miguel A. Fernandez, Yifei Li, Michael Mara, Frank Morgan, Isamar Rosa Plata, Niralee Shah, Luis Sordo Vieira, and Elena Wikner. Isoperimetric pentagonal tilings. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (May, 2012), 632-640.

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  4. Whan Ghang, Zane Martin, and Steven Waruhui. Perimeter-minimizing tilings by convex and nonconvex pentagons. Rose-Hulman Und. Math. J. 16(1) (2015).

  5.  Frank Morgan. New Optimal Pentagonal Tilings. Available at https://sites.williams.edu/Morgan/2015/01/31/new-optimal-pentagonal-tilings/.

  6.  Frank Morgan. Pentagons Everywhere. Available at  https://sites.williams.edu/Morgan/2011/11/20/pentagons-everywhere/.

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    Frank Morgan

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Does your hometown have any mathematical tourist attractions such as statues, plaques, graves, the café where the famous conjecture was made, the desk where the famous initials are scratched, birthplaces, houses, or memorials? Have you encountered a mathematical sight on your travels? If so, we invite you to submit an essay to this column. Be sure to include a picture, a description of its mathematical significance, and either a map or directions so that others may follow in your tracks.

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Morgan, F. My Undercover Mission to Find Cairo Tilings. Math Intelligencer 41, 19–22 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-019-09906-7

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