Discovery of the Aperiodic Monotile - Numberphile

An interview with Craig Kaplan, co-discoverer of the Aperiodic Monotile - the Holy Grail of Tiling. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓

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[QuantumHistorian]

Genuinely brilliant interview, by both both sides. Brady asks all the right questions, and Craig gives real answers to them. It's rare for it to bring the human element into the research without going too far one way or the the other.

[bradleysampson]

Brady is such a great interviewer. I miss Hello Internet.

[MrCheeze]

Loved seeing the emails between the researchers, as they added more people onto the team. You can imagine what it must be like for a mathematician to get a mesage from your peers saying "We have a promising lead on the biggest open question in our field, and we think you're the ideal person to work on it." (In more cautious language of course, but they know exactly what it means.)

[jethin]

I love how it was found by a random shape enthusiast. Just so cool that this guy could find it with awesome intuition

[johnredberg]

For anyone trying to find the Japanese artist Prof. Kaplan is mentioning on several occasions, the proper spelling is "Yoshiaki Araki".

[rohitg]

Craig wasn’t my professor, but we had common office hours in first year and I went to visit him every week.

He was a great teacher, and I never expected him to show up on numberphile before computerphile!

[Max..Q]

If Craig is looking for a new quest... well, he can always go one dimension higher and look for an aperiodic monosolid.

[geckoman]

What a wonderful interview. The guest was very generous to all involved, from his coauthors to the listeners.

[JellyMonster]

Craig, really enjoyed the talk. Great to relive the moment. Fantastic journey. Many thanks.

[justin_]

Should interview this David guy too. Interesting to see a non-mathematician get real work done in math.

[TheMeal]

Brady, you are amazing at interviewing. The window you open to the world's incredible nature is mind-blowing. Thank you for sharing with us.

[PaulH]

I've been waiting for a Numberphile video about this monotile! I've been interested in this subject since I read Martin Gardner's columns on Penrose tiles years ago. Thanks for sharing information about this interesting and important discovery.

[johndeaux]

I love that this hippie shape enjoyer created some shape and was like hey man I made this shape but it’s not working properly 😂

[bunnybreaker]

As a gamedev/artist/vfx geek, this is super interesting. Love this stuff 🖤

[menso]

The shape they called a hat was a t shirt to me lol. It's crazy to see these shapes and so clearly see how they could tile a plane. I wish I could see their reaction when they realized that they found it.

[TheAlison]

I don't know much at all about tilings but it's so much fun seeing how important and exciting this is.
I love how you talk to guests, who are often academic (and frankly, typically stifled by strictness and disallowedness), but you as well as they are shown to just be normal people.

[TheRuler]

Wonderful closing words and beautiful interview. Thank you both very much!

[Luperbillion]

To be fair, if "einstein" means "one stone" then even if you have to flip it, you only need one shape of that stone

[radagastwiz]

UWaterloo content! Love it when I get to see someone local.

[Verlisify]

Great attitude to see the criticism of flipping the shape as another solution to solve