Plato, Apollonius, and Klein: Playing with spheres

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(95)00093-JMaRDI QIDQ1896520zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giorgio Mantica, Shaun Bullett

Publication date 29 August 1995

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(95)00093-j

zbMATH Keywords

Appollonian circle packings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

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