We're in Newtyle, Scotland, to celebrate the discovery of an Aperiodic Monotile. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓

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See an accompanying interview with Craig Kaplan codiscoverer of both this tile and the subsequent chiral version    • Discovery of the Aperiodic Monotile ...  

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Extra footage from this video    • A New Tile (extra)  Numberphile  

The first paper An aperiodic monotile David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan, and Chaim GoodmanStrauss https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.10798.pdf

And the chiral followup https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.17743.pdf

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