Overview
- Introductory book in Convex Geometry
- Accessible to non expert in the field
- Contains an overview on the various branches of the modern Brunn-Minkowski theory of convex bodies
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 2332)
Part of the book sub series: C.I.M.E. Foundation Subseries (LNMCIME)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
Convex geometry is a very active area in mathematics with a solid tradition and a promising future. Its main objects of study are convex bodies, that is, compact and convex subsets of n-dimensional Euclidean space. The so-called Brunn--Minkowski theory currently represents the central part of convex geometry.
The Summer School provided an introduction to various aspects of convex geometry: The theory of valuations, including its recent developments concerning valuations on function spaces; geometric and analytic inequalities, including those which come from the Lp Brunn--Minkowski theory; geometric and analytic notions of duality, along with their interplay with mass transportation and concentration phenomena; symmetrizations, which provide one of the main tools to many variational problems(not only in convex geometry). Each of these parts is represented by one of the courses given during the Summer School and corresponds to one of the chapters of the present volume. The initial chapter contains some basic notions in convex geometry, which form a common background for the subsequent chapters.
The material of this book is essentially self-contained and, like the Summer School, is addressed to PhD and post-doctoral students and to all researchers approaching convex geometry for the first time.
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Monika Ludwig received a PhD in Mathematics at the Technische Universität Wien. She was an Erwin-Schrödinger Fellow at University College London and New York Polytechnic University and visiting professor at the University of Bern. She was a Professor at New York University before she returned to the Technische Universität Wien as a Professor of Convex and Discrete Geometry. She received the Hlawka-Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Förderungspreis of the Austrian Mathematical Society. She became a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2011, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, and a Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2013. She was a plenary speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in 2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Convex Geometry
Book Subtitle: Cetraro, Italy 2021
Authors: Shiri Artstein-Avidan, Gabriele Bianchi, Andrea Colesanti, Paolo Gronchi, Daniel Hug, Monika Ludwig, Fabian Mussnig
Editors: Andrea Colesanti, Monika Ludwig
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37883-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37882-9Published: 14 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37883-6Published: 13 December 2023
Series ISSN: 0075-8434
Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 298
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Convex and Discrete Geometry