This book brings together for the first time the many strands of contemporary research in quasicrystal geometry.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; 1. Past as prologue; 2. Lattices, Voronoi cells, and quasicrystals; 3. Introduction to diffraction geometry; 4. Order on the line; 5. Tiles and tilings; 6. Penrose tilings of the plane; 7. The aperiodic zoo; 8. An atlas of tiling transforms; Appendix I. A mathematician's toolbag; Appendix II. De Bruijn's generalized functions; References.