![]() ![]() The diminutive of tessera was tessella, a small, square piece of stone or a cubical tile used in mosaics. Tessellate (verb), tessellation (noun): from Latin tessera “a square tablet” or “a die used for gambling.” Latin tessera may have been borrowed from Greek tessares, meaning “four,” since a square tile has four sides. *Steven Schwartzman’s The Words of Mathematics (1994, The Mathematical Association of America) says: Michael South has contributed some thoughts to the discussion. You can learn more by following the links listed in Other Tessellation Links and Related Sites. There are also tessellations made of polygons that do not share common edges and vertices. There are an infinite number of tessellations that can be made of patterns that do not have the same combination of angles at every vertex point.
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