International Workshop on Geometry and Interfaces
J. Phys. Colloques 51 (1990) C7-249-C7-255
DOI: 10.1051/jphyscol:1990725
STRUCTURALISM
A. MACKAYDepartment of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, GB-London WC1E 7HX, Great-Britain
Abstract
Structuralism is a significant intellectual movement. Material structure, which underlies ail intellectual structure, begins with the geometry of space and the division of space into regions. Recently, developments have taken place in the mathematical world which, with the aid of computer graphics, have enabled the ideas of classical crystallography to be much extended by the incorporation of curved 2-dimensional manifolds or interfaces.
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