The Pursuit of Perfect Packing
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The Pursuit of Perfect Packing

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Pursuit of Perfect Packing

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Coauthored by one of the creators of the most efficient space packing solution, the Weaire-Phelan structure, The Pursuit of Perfect Packing, Second Edition explores a problem of importance in physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, and engineering: the packing of structures. Maintaining its mathematical core, this edition continues and rev

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface to First Edition
  4. Preface to Second Edition
  5. Chapter 1. How Many Sweets in the Jar?
  6. Chapter 2. Loose Change and Tight Packing
  7. Chapter 3. Hard Problems with Hard Spheres
  8. Chapter 4. Proof Positive?
  9. Chapter 5. Disordered Packings
  10. Chapter 6. Sands and Grains
  11. Chapter 7. Divide and Conquer: Tiling Space
  12. Chapter 8. Peas and Pips
  13. Chapter 9. Enthusiastic Admiration: The Honeycomb
  14. Chapter 10. A Search for Structure
  15. Chapter 11. Toils and Troubles with Bubbles
  16. Chapter 12. Bubbles in Beijing
  17. Chapter 13. The Architecture of the World of Atoms
  18. Chapter 14. Apollonius and Concrete
  19. Chapter 15. Packing and Kisses in High Dimensions
  20. Chapter 16. The Sweets in the Jar, the Pebbles on the Beach...
  21. Chapter 17. The Giant's Causeway
  22. Chapter 18. Finite Packings and Tessellations, from Soccer to Sausages
  23. Chapter 19. Odds and Ends
  24. Appendix A: The Best Packing in Two Dimensions
  25. Appendix B: Turning Down the Heat: Simulated Annealing
  26. Index
  27. Back cover