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Tiling problems have been investigated throughout the history of mathematics, leading to a vast literature on the subject. Our present knowledge of tilings of the plane is quite good, although there are of course many open problems even in the comparatively elementary and easily accessible levels.
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Schulte, E. (2013). Combinatorial Prototiles. In: Senechal, M. (eds) Shaping Space. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92714-5_16
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