In 1998 Thomas Hales dramatically announced the solution of a problem which has long teased eminent mathematicians: what is the densest possible arrangement of identical spheres? In this book Denis Weaire and Tomaso Aste recount the story of this problem and many others which have to do with packing things […]
Twelve problems have been added to the first edition; four of them are supplements to problems in the first edition. The others deal with issues that have become important, since the first edition of Volume II, in recent developments of various areas of physics. All the problems have their foundations […]
This tract represents worked-out lecture notes of a course in the calculus of variations delivered by the author to students in mathematical physics at the University of Amsterdam. In this course the calcucalculus of variations is treated in a slightly modernized way by making full use of the language of […]
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