Convex bodies : the Brunn-Minkowski theory /

Convex bodies : the Brunn-Minkowski theory /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Schneider, Rolf, 1940-
Edition:	Second Expanded Edition.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:	xxii, 736 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; 151 Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; 151.
Subject:	Convex bodies. Convex bodies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9863756

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ISBN:	9781107601017 (hardback) 1107601010 (hardback)
Notes:	"First published 1993; first paperback edition 2008"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-714) and indexes.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
General hints to the literature
Conventions and notation
1. Basic convexity
2. Boundary structure
3. Minkowski addition
4. Support measures and intrinsic volumes
5. Mixed volumes and related concepts
6. Valuations on convex bodies
7. Inequalities for mixed volumes
8. Determination by area measures and curvatures
9. Extensions and analogues of the Brunn-Minkowski theory
10. Affine constructions and inequalities
Appendix: Spherical harmonics
References
Notation index
Author index
Subject index