The pursuit of perfect packing. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tomaso Aste and Denis Weaire.
• Other Names: Aste, Tomaso; Weaire, D. L
• Contents: How many sweets in the jar? -- Loose change and tight packing -- Hard problems with hard spheres -- Proof positive? -- Disordered packings -- Sands and grains -- Divide and conquer: tiling space -- Peas and pips -- Enthusiastic admiration: the honeycomb -- A search for structure -- Toils and troubles with bubbles -- Bubbles in Beijing -- The architecture of the world of atoms -- Apollonius and concrete -- Packings and kisses in high dimensions -- The sweets in the jar, the pebbles on the beach -- The giant's causeway -- Finite packings and tessellations, from soccer to sausages -- Odds and ends -- The best packing in two dimensions -- Turning down the heat: simulated annealing.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: New York : Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume)
• Subjects: 511/.6; Combinatorial packing and covering; MATHEMATICS -- Combinatorics; Combinatorial packing and covering; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420068184; 1420068180; 9781420068177; 1420068172
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.