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The Pursuit of Perfect Packing explores the densest possible arrangement of identical spheres and many others problems that have to do with packing things together. The examples from mathematics, physics, biology, and engineering include the arrangement of soap bubbles in foam, atoms in a crystal, the architecture of the bee's honeycomb, and the structure of the Giant's Causeway. The book also contains brief accounts of the lives of many of the scientists...
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There is a long tradition of geometric questions requiring algebra for their answers. The oldest go back to the Greeks, such as "Can we construct a square with the same area as that of a given disk?" many of which were not resolved until mathematicians concluded that [lowercase Greek]Pi is transcendental. There are many questions that appear to focus on geometry, but which require algebra to solve. This book looks at the algebra used to solve tiling...
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