巴普士是公元三世纪前后著名的希腊数学家.他写的《数学汇编》第五卷中提出一个十分新颖的问题:“蜜蜂的机敏”.其中关于蜂房的结构,有一段很吸引人的描写:“蜂房是蜂蜜的容器,它是许许多多相同的六棱柱形,一个挨着一个,中间没有一点空隙.这种设计的优点是避免杂物的搀入,弄脏了这些纯洁的产品(图1). Baptist was a famous Greek mathematician around the third century AD. In the fifth volume of his “Compendium of Mathematics,” he put forth a very novel problem: “The bee’s alertness.” One of the attractions of the structure of the hive was very attractive. Human description: ”The hive is a container of honey. It is a lot of the same six-prism shape, one next to the other, with no gaps in between. The advantage of this design is to avoid the intrusion of debris and to contaminate these Pure product (Figure 1).