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Local rules and global order, or aperiodic tilings

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  • Bruno Durand

    (CMI)

  • Leonid Levin

    (Boston University)

  • Alexander Shen

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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

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  • Bruno Durand & Leonid Levin & Alexander Shen, 2005. "Local rules and global order, or aperiodic tilings," The Mathematical Intelligencer, Springer, vol. 27(1), pages 64-68, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:matint:v:27:y:2005:i:1:d:10.1007_bf02984815
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02984815
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