Dynamics on Discrete Structures: A Dialog between Squares and Circles
Renaissance Banff: Mathematics, Music, Art, Culture
Pages 343–344
Abstract
Discretized versions of continuous structures can be used to great effect to increase the amount of information conveyed in mathematics, art and science. As an example, we will examine a model for a confined polymer in a solution, Figure 1, as imagined by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes [1], and an analogous mathematical model of the same decomposition of space, rotated counterclockwise through 90 degrees as in Figure 2, [3].