The Pursuit of Perfect Packing

ISBN-13: 9780367387693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 216 str.

Denis Weaire; Tomaso Aste

Opis

Coauthored by one of the creators of the most efficient space packing solution, this book focuses on both scientific and everyday problems ranging from atoms to honeycombs. It describes packing models, such as the Kepler conjecture, Voronoï decomposition, and Delaunay decomposition, as well as actual structure models, such as the Kelvin cell and the Weaire–Phelan structure. The authors discuss numerous historical aspects and provide biographical details on influential contributors to the field. This edition continues and revises some of the stories from its predecessor while adding several new examples and applications, including the design of the 2008 Olympics’ National Aquatic Center.

Spis treści

Prefaces. 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. Appendices. Index.

O autorze

Weaire, Denis; Aste, Tomaso