9781461481171-1461481171-Lectures on Sphere Arrangements – the Discrete Geometric Side (Fields Institute Monographs, 32)

Lectures on Sphere Arrangements – the Discrete Geometric Side (Fields Institute Monographs, 32)

ISBN-13: 9781461481171
ISBN-10: 1461481171
Edition: 2013
Author: Károly Bezdek
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 187 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781461481171
ISBN-10: 1461481171
Edition: 2013
Author: Károly Bezdek
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 187 pages

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Lectures on Sphere Arrangements – the Discrete Geometric Side (Fields Institute Monographs, 32) (ISBN-13: 9781461481171 and ISBN-10: 1461481171), written by authors Károly Bezdek, was published by Springer in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Lectures on Sphere Arrangements – the Discrete Geometric Side (Fields Institute Monographs, 32) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This monograph gives a short introduction to the relevant modern parts of discrete geometry, in addition to leading the reader to the frontiers of geometric research on sphere arrangements. The readership is aimed at advanced undergraduate and early graduate students, as well as interested researchers. It contains more than 40 open research problems ideal for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and computer science. Additionally, this book may be considered ideal for a one-semester advanced undergraduate or graduate level course. The core part of this book is based on three lectures given by the author at the Fields Institute during the thematic program on “Discrete Geometry and Applications” and contains four core topics. The first two topics surround active areas that have been outstanding from the birth of discrete geometry, namely dense sphere packings and tilings. Sphere packings and tilings have a very strong connection to number theory, coding, groups, and mathematical programming. Extending the tradition of studying packings of spheres, is the investigation of the monotonicity of volume under contractions of arbitrary arrangements of spheres. The third major topic of this book can be found under the sections on ball-polyhedra that study the possibility of extending the theory of convex polytopes to the family of intersections of congruent balls. This section of the text is connected in many ways to the above-mentioned major topics and it is also connected to some other important research areas as the one on coverings by planks (with close ties to geometric analysis). This fourth core topic is discussed under covering balls by cylinders.
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