ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|4 pages

How Many Sweets in the Jar?

chapter 2|6 pages

Loose Change and Tight Packing

chapter 3|10 pages

Hard Problems with Hard Spheres

chapter 4|14 pages

Proof Positive?

chapter 5|8 pages

Disordered Packings

chapter 6|14 pages

Sands and Grains

chapter 7|10 pages

Divide and Conquer: Tiling Space

chapter 8|8 pages

Peas and Pips

chapter 9|6 pages

Enthusiastic Admiration: The Honeycomb

chapter 10|6 pages

A Search for Structure

chapter 11|20 pages

Toils and Troubles with Bubbles

chapter 12|4 pages

Bubbles in Beijing

chapter 13|20 pages

The Architecture of the World of Atoms

chapter 14|8 pages

Apollonius and Concrete

chapter 15|8 pages

Packings and Kisses in High Dimensions

chapter 17|8 pages

The Giant’s Causeway

chapter 19|12 pages

Odds and Ends