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Marjorie Rice was an unlikely candidate for the role of mathematical innovat
Marjorie Rice was an unlikely candidate for the role of mathematical innovat
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2024-10-07
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Marjorie Rice was an unlikely candidate for the role of mathematical innovator. She had no formal education in mathematics and save a single course required for graduation from high school in 1939. Nonetheless, in 1975 she took up a problem that professional mathematicians had twice left for dead, and showed how much life was in still.
The roblem was tessellation, or a rectangle — and fitting it together with copies of itself so that a plane is covered without any gaps or overlap. A region this plane would look rather like jigsaw puzzle whose pieces are all identical. Rice worked primarily with polygons, which consist only of straight lines. More specifically, she worked with convex polygons, in which the line joining any tow points on the polygon lies entirely within the polygon itself or on one of its edges. (A five-pointed star, for example, does not qualify as a convex polygon.)
By the time Rice took up tiling, its basic properties had been established. Obviously, any square can tile the plane, as many kitchen floors have demonstrated. Equilateral triangles are also a fairly clear-cut case. There is one other regular polygon (a polygon whose angles, and sides, are equal) that can tile the plane: hexagon. This fact was established by the ancient Greeks but had long before been exploited by honeybees in building their honeycombs.
And what of irregular polygons? As it turns out, any triangle or quadrilateral, no matter how devoid of regularity, will tile the plane. On the other hand, no convex polygon with more than six sides can do so, and the three classes of convex polygon that can were uncovered by the end of the First World War. So the only real question left by the time Marjorie Rice began her work was which convex pentagons tile the plane. [br] The main subject of the passage is_____.
选项
A、famous mathematicians
B、mathematical education
C、tiling the plane
D、irregular polygons
答案
C
解析
主旨题。虽然文章的开始提到了Marjorie Rice这个人,但主要是为了引出下面的内容,即“The problem was tessellation,or a rectangle…”,从第二段开始主要讲的是有关“tiling of the plane”的问题。因此C是正确的。
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