ENGLISH

Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter

By Jan C. A. Boeyens , Demetrius C. Levendis

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2008
ISBN
1402066597, 978-1-4020-6659-7, 1402066600, 9781402066603
LCC
QC173.4.A87 B64 2008
Open Library ID
OL16522194M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3565901 bytes)
Pages
387\387
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

The main purpose of the book is to communicate a fundamental principle to the scientific world. The eventual impact of the subject matter is considered to be much wider than the readership of the preliminary accounts which have been published. The number principle at issue is known to be of wide general interest and the book has also been written to be accessible to nonspecialists. The potential readership should extend way beyond academic scientists.The discovery described in this book could be of seminal significance, also in other fields where the golden ratio is known to be of fundamental importance. The most obvious connection is with Fibonacci phylotaxis in the study of botanical growth and the number basis of DNA coding. In another context it may impinge on crystallographic periodicity and the structure of quasicrystals. These topics are beyond the scope of this book and hence it is all the more important that the power of number theory to describe physical systems be disseminated more widely.

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