Local rules and global order, or aperiodic tilings

Bruno Durand (), Leonid Levin and Alexander Shen ()
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Bruno Durand: CMI
Leonid Levin: Boston University

The Mathematical Intelligencer, 2005, vol. 27, issue 1, No 9, 64-68

Abstract: Abstract Can local rules impose a global order? If yes, when and how? This is a philosophical question that could be asked in many cases. How does local interaction of atoms create crystals (or quasicrystals)? How does one living cell manage to develop into a pine cone whose seeds form spirals (and the number of spirals

Keywords: Mathematical Intelligencer; Local Rule; Meeting Point; Interior Part; Global Order (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/BF02984815

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