The pursuit of perfect packing. (©2008)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The pursuit of perfect packing. (©2008)
- Main Title:
- The pursuit of perfect packing
- 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.
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- 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).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.150276
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