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Isohedral tilings of the plane by polygons

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    Branko Grünbaum & G. C. Shephard

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Dedicated to Hugo Hadwiger on his seventieth birthday

Research supported by the National Science Foundation Grant MPS74-07547 A01.

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Grünbaum, B., Shephard, G.C. Isohedral tilings of the plane by polygons. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 53, 542–571 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02566098

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