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Algebra and Tiling: Homorphisms in the Service of Geometry

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Sherman K. Stein, University of California, Davis and Sándor Szabó, University of Bahrain

Publication: Carus Mathematical Monographs
Publication Year: 1994; Volume 25
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-5111-0 (print); 978-1-61444-024-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614440246
MathSciNet review: MR1311249
MSC: Primary 52C22; Secondary 05B45, 52C20

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Table of Contents

Front/Back Matter

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Chapters

• Chapter 1. Minkowski’s Conjecture
• Chapter 2. Cubical Clusters
• Chapter 3. Tiling by the Semicross and Cross
• Chapter 4. Packing and Covering by the Semicross and Cross
• Chapter 5. Tiling by Triangles of Equal Areas
• Chapter 6. Tiling by Similar Triangles
• Chapter 7. Rédei’s Theorem
• Epilog
• Appendix A. Lattices
• Appendix B. The Character Group and Exact Sequences
• Appendix C. Formal Sums
• Appendix D. Cyclotomic Polynomials

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