Radin Charles
Symmetry and Tilings
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ABSTRACT.  The idea of "statistical" rotational symmetry is introduced
and applied to tilings of Euclidean space, both for the
mathematical study of patterns and the analysis of ground states
of materials such as quasicrystals. (The article is
expository, for the Notices of the Amer. Math. Soc.)