The pursuit of perfect packing / Tomaso Aste, Denis Weaire.

Author/creator Aste, Tomaso
Other author Weaire, D. L.
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Taylor & Francis, ©2008.
Descriptionxiii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Combinatorial packing and covering.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007044016
ISBN9781420068177 (alk. paper)
ISBN1420068172 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QA166.7 .A78 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold