The text
Volume III · ℝ³ contact manifoldThe Mini-Beast
The pilot volume — a living document for ESL students, STEM teachers, and
everyone who suspects the universe runs on one equation. This is the copy the rest of the
series links to, and the only volume with an ISBN of its own
(979-8-9954416-6-3, eBook PDF; no print edition, ever).
../vol3-minibeast.html
Chapter γ
Photonic Crystals and the Graphene Lattice
Sajeev John’s photonic band gap materials, graphene’s Dirac cone, and the Floquet–Bloch theorem that governs both — and the dm³ transverse spectrum.
chGamma-photonic-crystals.html
Book 3 · chapter
Bones in Orbit
What astronaut bone loss and recovery data say, read through the dm³ table: a single relaxation with half-times of 97 to 255 days, not a spiral sink and not yet a fold.
../ch-bone-density-spaceflight.html
Companion
Vocabulary: Seismic Geometry
The term list for the stone-fold chapter — the vocabulary layer the
Mini-Beast’s pedagogy is built on.
book3/vocab-seismic-geometry.html
Editions
PortugueseO Mini-Beast — Livro 3 · Para o Brasil
The Brazilian edition.
../livro3-brasil.html
Pilot
The Mini-Beast — pilot
The classroom pilot the volume documents.
../minibeast-pilot.html
Every file in this directory
Listed in full so that nothing in
book3/ is reachable only by guessing at a URL.
| File | What it actually is |
|---|---|
| index.html | This page. |
| vocab-seismic-geometry.html | The seismic-geometry vocabulary companion. Also linked from ch-seismic.html. |
Until 2026-08-18 this page was a near-copy of
../vol3-minibeast.html, differing from
it only in where its links pointed — and pointing at superseded copies of Volumes I and II.
The volume is read at the root file; this directory keeps the vocabulary companion.