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Polygons, Polyominoes and Polycubes (Lecture Notes in Physics, 775) by Anthony J. Guttman[n] (ed.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Polygons, Polyominoes and Polycubes (Lecture Notes in Physics, 775) about?
This unique book gives a comprehensive account of new mathematical tools used to solve polygon problems. In the 20th and 21st centuries, many problems in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical chemistry – and more recently in molecular biology and bio-informatics – can be expressed as counting problems, in which specified graphs, or shapes, are counted. One very special class of shapes is that of polygons. These are closed, connected paths in space. We usually sketch them in two-dimensions, but they can exist in any dimension. The typical questions asked include "how many are there of a given perimeter?", "how big is the average polygon of given perimeter?", and corresponding questions about the area or volume enclosed. That is to say "how many enclosing a given area?" and "how large is an average polygon of given area?" Simple though these questions are to pose, they are extraordinarily difficult to answer. They are important questions because of the application of polygon, and the related problems of polyomino and polycube counting, to phenomena occurring in the natural world, and also because the study of these problems has been responsible for the development of power
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- Author
- Anthony J. Guttman[n] (ed.)
- Publisher
- Springer; Canopus Academic Pub.
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781402099267
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Mathematics, Biology