Book Review: Descriptive Geometry

Quasicrystals and geometry: a Book Review

Penrose tilings (Fig. 1) are beautiful. They also suggest significant new mathematics, so it is about time someone wrote a book about them which is readable (in fact, eminently readable) by mathematicians. The book, Quasicrystals and geometry, by Marjorie Senechal, has an even broader goal: to present certain developments in crystallography from the past decade. The developments were generated ...

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Generalized Descriptive Geometry

Generalized Descriptive Geometry (GDG) denotes all techniques of imaging abstract objects and their relations, which are constructive in the same sense as the methods of classical descriptive geometry, i.e., there have to be algorithms concerning the abstract objects (may be decision processes) so that there are translations into algorithms working with the pictures instead of the abstract obje...

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