Student Mathematical Library
Volume: 1;
1999;
120 pp;
Softcover
MSC: Primary 52;
Secondary 58; 47; 82; 20
Print ISBN: 978-0-8218-1933-3
Product Code: STML/1
List Price: $20.00
Individual Price: $16.00
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4704-2122-9
Product Code: STML/1.E
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Miles of Tiles
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“In this book, we try to display the value (and joy!) of starting from a mathematically amorphous problem and combining ideas from diverse sources to produce new and significant mathematics—mathematics unforeseen from the motivating problem …”
—from the Preface
The common thread throughout this book is aperiodic tilings; the
best-known example is the “kite and dart” tiling. This
tiling has been widely discussed, particularly since 1984 when it was
adopted to model quasicrystals. The presentation uses many different
areas of mathematics and physics to analyze the new features of such
tilings. Although many people are aware of the existence of aperiodic
tilings, and maybe even their origin in a question in logic, not
everyone is familiar with their subtleties and the underlying rich
mathematical theory. For the interested reader, this book fills that
gap.
Understanding this new type of tiling requires an unusual variety
of specialties, including ergodic theory, functional analysis, group
theory and ring theory from mathematics, and statistical mechanics and
wave diffraction from physics. This interdisciplinary approach also
leads to new mathematics seemingly unrelated to the tilings. Included are
many worked examples and a large number of figures. The
book's multidisciplinary approach and extensive use of illustrations
make it useful for a broad mathematical audience.
Readership
Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and research mathematicians.
Reviews & Endorsements
The book serves as a solid introduction to the study of aperiodic tilings for anyone with sufficient mathematical background. I would wholeheartedly recommend this book for the library of any mathematics department. It would make a great starting point for the directed study project of a motivated senior.
-- MAA Online
In this short book, the author discusses several aspects of the theory of “substitution tilings” and “finite type” aperiodic tilings. The book highlights a number of relations between the long-range order properties of these tilings, properties of the translation-invariant measures on the space of tilings, and the (statistical) symmetries of these measures.
-- Mathematical Reviews
Reacted very positively … lovely little book.
-- Palle Jorgensen
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Miles of Tiles
- Cover Cover11 free
- Title iii4 free
- Copyright iv5 free
- Contents vii8 free
- List of Figures ix10 free
- Preface xi12 free
- Introduction 114 free
- Chapter 1. Ergodic Theory 1730 free
- Chapter 2. Physics (for Mathematicians) 5568
- Chapter 3. Order 6376
- Chapter 4. Symmetry 6982
- Chapter 5. Conclusion 99112
- Appendix I. Geometry 103116
- Appendix II. Algebra 105118
- Appendix III. Analysis 109122
- References 113126
- List of Symbols 117130
- Subject Index 119132
- Back Cover Back Cover1134