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Roger Penrose in Podcasts

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American scientist and mathematician known for work on tiling patterns and the Penrose tiling.

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A mysterious design that appears across millennia | Terry Moore

And the notion of an aperiodic tile set using only two tiles was such a sensation, it was given the name Penrose tiling.

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A mysterious design that appears across millennia | Terry Moore

The thing that was remarkable about the pattern that Roger Penrose developed is that by using only two shapes, he constructed a pattern that could be expanded infinitely in any direction without ever repeating.

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A mysterious design that appears across millennia | Terry Moore

But back in the 1970s, Roger Penrose made a contribution to the world of mathematics, and that part of mathematics known as tiling.

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A mysterious design that appears across millennia | Terry Moore

This is Roger Penrose, certainly one of the great scientists of our time, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work reconciling black holes with Einstein's general theory of relativity.