88 shaares
16 private links
16 private links
1 result
tagged
tiling
Great advances in the foundations of modern mathematics were made in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While mathematicians like Pascal, Fermat and Leibnitz were studying the new subject of probability, a Dominican priest named Sebastien Truchet published a work which explored the subject in graphical form by means of tilings. Truchet is also the person…