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Enumerating Truchet tiles on the faces of polyhedra

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August 11, 2025
Abstract
In joint work with Bill Keehn of the Prison Mathematics Project, we generalize a tiling problem in enumerative combinatorics that was perhaps first considered by M.C. Escher. While Escher enumerated tilings on the 2×2 torus grid, we count tilings on the faces of Platonic, Archimedean, and Catalan solids.
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