Crystallography

As a self-study guide, course primer or teaching aid, Bor-chardt-Ott's Crystallography is the perfect textbook forstudents and teachers alike. In fact, it can be used bychemists, mineralogists, physicists and geologists. Based on the author's more than 20 years of teachingexperience, the book has numerous line drawings designedespecially for the text and a large number of exercises- with solutions - at the end of each chapter. The fourth edition of the original German text has beentranslated into English for an international readership. The heart of the book is firmly fixed in geometricalcrystallography. It is from the concept of the space latticethat symmetry operations, Bravais lattices, space groups andpoint groups are all developed. Molecular symmetry andcrystal formsare treated. Much emphasis is placed on thecorrespondence between point groups and space groups. Thesections on crystal chemistry and X-ray diffraction areintended as an introduction to these fields.