Pentagonal tiling

The 15th monohedral convex pentagonal type, discovered in 2015

In geometry, a pentagonal tiling is a tiling of the plane where each individual piece is in the shape of a pentagon.

A regular pentagonal tiling on the Euclidean plane is impossible because the internal angle of a regular pentagon, 108°, is not a divisor of 360°, the angle measure of a whole turn. However, regular pentagons can tile the hyperbolic plane with four pentagons around each vertex (or more) and sphere with three pentagons; the latter produces a tiling that is topologically equivalent to the dodecahedron.[1]

  1. ^ Chung, Ping Ngai; Fernandez, Miguel A.; Li, Yifei; Mara, Michael; Morgan, Frank; Plata, Isamar Rosa; Shah, Nirlee; Vieira, Luis Sordo; Wikner, Elena (2012-05-01), "Isoperimetric Pentagonal Tilings", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (5): 632, doi:10.1090/noti838, ISSN 0002-9920