Umama Ali spent more time as a kid arguing with his brother over who caused the most chaos in GTA Vice City than doing homework, and he’s been unapologetically hooked on games ever since. That ...

But if Tile (1,1) is modified by replacing its straight edges with curves, it becomes a vampire einstein—a single shape that without reflection tiles the infinite plane in a pattern that can never be ...

A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy, hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat. Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just ...