Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science
Department
Mathematics
Reader 1
Arthur T. Benjamin
Reader 2
Maria Klawe
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© 2015 Eric Stucky
Abstract
In 1961, P. W. Kasteleyn provided a baffling-looking solution to an apparently simple tiling problem: how many ways are there to tile a rectangular region with dominos? We examine his proof, simplifying and clarifying it into this nearly self-contained work.
Recommended Citation
Stucky, Eric, "An Exposition of Kasteleyn's Solution of the Dimer Model" (2015). HMC Senior Theses. 89.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/89
