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Measures of Symmetry for Convex Sets and Stability
Gabor Toth
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Paperback. Series: Universitext. Num Pages: 276 pages, 64 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBMW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This textbook treats two important and related matters in convex geometry: the quantification of symmetry of a convex set-measures of symmetry-and the degree to which convex sets that nearly minimize such measures of symmetry are themselves nearly symmetric-the phenomenon of stability. By gathering the subject's core ideas and highlights around Grunbaum's general notion of measure of symmetry, it paints a coherent picture of the subject, and guides the reader from the basics to the state-of-the-art. The exposition takes various paths to results in order to develop the reader's grasp of the unity of ideas, while interspersed remarks enrich the material ... Read more
This textbook treats two important and related matters in convex geometry: the quantification of symmetry of a convex set-measures of symmetry-and the degree to which convex sets that nearly minimize such measures of symmetry are themselves nearly symmetric-the phenomenon of stability. By gathering the subject's core ideas and highlights around Grunbaum's general notion of measure of symmetry, it paints a coherent picture of the subject, and guides the reader from the basics to the state-of-the-art. The exposition takes various paths to results in order to develop the reader's grasp of the unity of ideas, while interspersed remarks enrich the material ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Universitext
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319237329
SKU
V9783319237329
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99-15
About Gabor Toth
Gabor Toth is Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Rutgers University, Camden. His research interests include harmonic maps and minimal immersions and convex geometry. He is the author of Glimpses of Algebra and Geometry, as well as Finite Moebius Groups, Spherical Minimal Immersions, and Moduli.
Reviews for Measures of Symmetry for Convex Sets and Stability
The book under review is a graduate-level textbook on convexity, which presents the topic from a new and interesting point of view. ... The book offers the reader a new approach to the study of convexity, focusing on the important topics of measures of symmetry and stability. It moves from the very beginning background to recent research, and therefore both ... Read more