Rigidity Theory and Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thorpe, M. F. (Editor), Duxbury, P. M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: Fundamental Materials Research,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Computers.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Biochemistry.; Physics.; Condensed matter.; Computer Science.; Programming Techniques.; Theory of Computation.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science.; Biochemistry, general.

Although rigidity has been studied since the time of Lagrange (1788) and Maxwell (1864), it is only in the last twenty-five years that it has begun to find applications in the basic sciences. The modern era starts with Laman (1970), who made the subject rigorous in two dimensions, followed by the de...