Frieze Patterns Camelia Karimian Pour • 11 October 2018 Friezes are horizontal symmetrical patterns that have occurred as architectural ornaments for many centuries. The mathematical analog of friezes was introduced in the 1970s by Conway and Coxeter. Coxeter conjectured in 1971 that the classification of friezes coincided with that of trian- gulations of convex polygons, that is, friezes can be enumerated by Catalan numbers. The theorem was proved two years later by Conway and Coxeter. In this talks, we will discuss symmetry pat- terns in friezes and the connection to n–gons.
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Frieze PatternsCamelia Karimian Pour • 11 October 2018
Friezes are horizontal symmetrical patterns that have occurred as architectural ornaments for
many centuries. The mathematical analog of friezes was introduced in the 1970s by Conway and
Coxeter. Coxeter conjectured in 1971 that the classification of friezes coincided with that of trian-
gulations of convex polygons, that is, friezes can be enumerated by Catalan numbers. The theorem
was proved two years later by Conway and Coxeter. In this talks, we will discuss symmetry pat-
terns in friezes and the connection to n–gons.
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Frieze PatternsCamelia Karimian Pour • 11 October 2018
Friezes are horizontal symmetrical patterns that have occurred as architectural ornaments for
many centuries. The mathematical analog of friezes was introduced in the 1970s by Conway and
Coxeter. Coxeter conjectured in 1971 that the classification of friezes coincided with that of trian-
gulations of convex polygons, that is, friezes can be enumerated by Catalan numbers. The theorem
was proved two years later by Conway and Coxeter. In this talks, we will discuss symmetry pat-
terns in friezes and the connection to n–gons.
1
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