Quasicrystals and Geometry (Paperback, Revised)

This text brings together the many strands of contemporary research in quasicrystal geometry and weaves them into a coherent whole. The author describes the historical and scientific context of this work, and carefully explains what has been proved and what is conjectured. This, together with a bibliography of over 250 references, provides a background for further study. The discovery in 1984 of crystals with forbidden symmetry posed fascinating and challenging problems in many fields of mathematics, as well as in the solid state sciences. Increasingly, mathematicians and physicists are becoming intrigued by the quasicrystal phenomenon, and the result has been an exponential growth in the literature on the geometry of diffraction patterns, the behaviour of the Fibonacci and other nonperiodic sequences, and the fascinating properties of the Penrose tilings and their many relatives. In this monograph, Marjorie Senechal gives us insight into what happened when established ideas had to be re-examined, modified or overturned.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1996
First published:	1995
Authors:	Marjorie Senechal
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	308
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-57541-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Euclidean geometry Promotions
LSN:	0-521-57541-9
Barcode:	9780521575416

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