In 1891 the Russian crystallographer, Yevgraf Fyodorov, carried out work on the periodic tiling of a plane surface. His work is often considered the beginning of the study of tessellation.
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Examine at some of the Symmetry artwork of MC Escher. He inspired Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematician whose work will shed some light on the mathematical uses of tessellation.
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Maurits Cornelis Escher, better known as MC Escher.
Maurits Cornelis Escher, more populaly known as MC Escher.
The question cannot be answered because it is based on the incorrect assertion that a semi-regular tessellation does not work. Sorry, but it does work!
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Robert Arnott Wilson is best known for his work on classifying the maximal subgroups of finite simple groups and for the work in the Monster group.
The first known tessellation was used around 4000 years ago in ancient Sumer. The person's name was not recorded.