Convexity and Its Applications

This collection of surveys consists in part of extensions of papers presented at the conferences on convexity at the Technische Universitat Wien (July 1981) and at the Universitat Siegen (July 1982) and in part of articles written at the invitation of the editors. This volume together with the earli...

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Main Authors: GRUBER., WILLS. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel Birkhäuser 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
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505 0 |a Convexity and Optimization in Discrete Structures July 1982 -- Isoperimetric inequalities -- Convex Bodies of Constant Width -- Algebraic Lattices -- The Twenty-Seven Lines on the Cubic Surface -- Convexity Through the Ages -- Approximation of convex bodies -- Geometric convexity and differential geometry -- Valuations on convex bodies -- Minimal and Closest Points Nonexpansive and Quasi-Nonexpansive Retractions in Real Banach Spaces -- Ellipsoids -- Convexity in Banach spaces: some recent results -- Zonoids and Related Topics -- New Results in the Theory of Packing and Covering -- Stereology: A Survey for Geometers -- Semi-Platonic Manifolds 
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520 |a This collection of surveys consists in part of extensions of papers presented at the conferences on convexity at the Technische Universitat Wien (July 1981) and at the Universitat Siegen (July 1982) and in part of articles written at the invitation of the editors. This volume together with the earlier volume «Contributions to Geometry» edited by Tolke and Wills and published by Birkhauser in 1979 should give a fairly good account of many of the more important facets of convexity and its applications. Besides being an up to date reference work this volume can be used as an advanced treatise on convexity and related fields. We sincerely hope that it will inspire future research. Fenchel, in his paper, gives an historical account of convexity showing many important but not so well known facets. The articles of Papini and Phelps relate convexity to problems of functional analysis on nearest points, nonexpansive maps and the extremal structure of convex sets. A bridge to mathematical physics in the sense of Polya and Szego is provided by the survey of Bandle on isoperimetric inequalities, and Bachem's paper illustrates the importance of convexity for optimization. The contribution of Coxeter deals with a classical topic in geometry, the lines on the cubic surface whereas Leichtweiss shows the close connections between convexity and differential geometry. The exhaustive survey of Chalk on point lattices is related to algebraic number theory. A topic important for applications in biology, geology etc