Algebra and tiling : homomorphisms in the service of geometry / Sherman K. Stein and Sándor Szabó

Author: Stein, Sherman K.
Additional Titles: Homomorphisms in the service of geometry
Published: Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, 1994.
Physical Description: xii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators: Szabó, Sándor, 1935- and Mathematical Association of America

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Series

Carus mathematical monographs ; no. 25.

Contents

Minkowski's conjecture -- Cubical clusters -- Tiling by the semicross and cross -- Packing and covering by the semicross and cross -- Tiling by triangles of equal areas -- Tiling by similar triangles -- Rédei's theorem -- Epilog -- Lattices -- The character group and exact sequences -- Formal sums -- Cyclotomic polynomials.

Subject(s)

Tiling (Mathematics)
Algebra
Homomorphisms (Mathematics)

ISBN

0883850281

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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