Introduction -- Description and symmetry of aperiodic crystals -- Tilings: mathematical models for quasicrystals -- Structure -- Physical properties -- Origin and stability -- Other topics
Summary
This book explains aperiodic crystals, which cannot be described by the classical model of 3-dimensional periodicities. The study of these new types of material necessitates describing them in dimensions larger than three. It describes the physical and mathematical methods to solve and characterize them, and to understand their physical properties
