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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: penrose
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>> His mathematics, per se, is excellent.

He was a geometer first. His early work was in projective geometry.

Heard of Penrose tiles? The aperiodic tiling of the plane.

And his work on (aperiodic?) crystals has proved prophetic.

That traingle on the front of GEB...

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