28/09/2026
Knowledge of the Day
What if a pattern could continue forever… but never repeat?
Penrose Tiling, discovered by mathematician Roger Penrose in the 1970s, uses just two shapes—a kite and a dart—to create an infinite pattern with order but no repetition. Decades later, the same geometry helped explain quasicrystals, a real form of matter once thought impossible.
A beautiful reminder that mathematics doesn't just describe the world—it reveals it.
Source: Penrose (1974); Shechtman et al. (1984)