Math in… Zellij

Zellij, a style of mosaic tilework made from hand-chiseled tiles, is a form of Islamic art. It is an example of tessellation, which is the covering of a surface with geometric shapes, such as circles or polygons, without gaps or overlaps. Mathematicians have generalized this notion to even more abstraction, and studied how higher dimensional geometric objects fit together in spaces!

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