Zome Primer

Bibliography

Bibliography

2Baer, Steve - The Dome Cookbook - Lama foundation, New Mexico - 1968

3Borrego, John - Space Grid Structures (Skeletal Frameworks and Stressed-Skin Systems) - MIT Press - Massachusetts - 1968

4 An exhaustive study of a few simple kinds of space grids with excellent illustrations of both the geometries and the hardware.

5Courant and Robbins - What is Mathematics? (An elementary approach to ideas and methods) - Oxford University Press 1941 & 1953

6 A good book for anyone who thinks about curious and profound questions in mathematics. It has a good section on continued fractions and infinite series.

7Coxeter, H. S. M. - Regular Polytopes - The MacMillan Co. New York - 1948 & 1963

8 This book has the most information about the regular polyhedra that I have seen. It is a difficult book for beginners. It has a good section on zonohedra. There are interesting historical remarks at the chapter ends.

9Cundy and Rollett - Mathematical Models - Oxford at the Clarendon Press - 1951 & 1961

10 A good simple book on polyhedra and interesting mathematical models. The illustrations are the best that can be found.

11Hilbert, David and S. Cohn-Vossen - Geometry and the Imagination - Chelsea Publishing Co. - New York - 1952

12 Many interesting and varied subjects are covered in this book. An excellent chapter on regular systems of points.

13Hoggatt, Verner E. Jr, - Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers - Houghton Mifflin Co. - Boston - 1969

14 Short clear text. The best of the books on Fibonacci numbers.

15Kowalewski, Dr. Gerhard - Per Keplersche Korper und Andere Bauspiele - K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium - Leipzig 1938

16 An account of the triacontahedron including the appearance of the divine proportion in its measurements, its breakdown into 20 parallelepipeds, the plaiting of its faces and ways of coloring its faces.

17Ogilvy and Anderson - Excursions in Number Theory - Oxford University Press , New York - 1966

18 An excellent book on number theory with a lucid chapter about continued fractions.

19Thompson, D’Arcy - On Growth and Form (Vol. 2) - Cambridge at the University Press - 1942 & 1963

20 Thompson discusses the divine proportion and the Fibonacci numbers and their appearance in nature.

21Tyng, Anne Griswold - Geometric Extensions of Consciousness - English translation from ’’Zodiac 19’’ magazine -

22 Filled with profound observations and important structural ideas.

23Vorobyov, N. N. - The Fibonacci Numbers - D. C. Heath & Co. Boston - 1963

24 Short clear text.

25Wachsmann, Konrad - The Turning Point of Building - Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York - 1961

26 An excellent book about prefabrication, design, joints, panels and processes associated with the machine.

References

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27William Henry Brown. The plant kingdom: a textbook of general botany. Boston: Ginn and company, 1935.

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28H. Martyn Cundy and A. P. Rollett. Mathematical models. 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961.