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New Trends in Intuitive Geometry

  • 17 survey articles in an active research field
  • Modern algebraic and topological methods
  • Includes open problems in various connected areas

Part of the book series: Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies (BSMS, volume 27)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. The Tensorization Trick in Convex Geometry

    • Alexander Barvinok
    Pages 1-23
  3. Contact Numbers for Sphere Packings

    • Károly Bezdek, Muhammad A. Khan
    Pages 25-47
  4. The Topological Transversal Tverberg Theorem Plus Constraints

    • Pavle V. M. Blagojević, Aleksandra S. Dimitrijević Blagojević, Günter M. Ziegler
    Pages 49-64
  5. A Survey of Elekes-Rónyai-Type Problems

    • Frank de Zeeuw
    Pages 95-124
  6. The Geometry of Abrasion

    • Gábor Domokos, Gary W. Gibbons
    Pages 125-153
  7. Computing Upper Bounds for the Packing Density of Congruent Copies of a Convex Body

    • Fernando Mário de Oliveira Filho, Frank Vallentin
    Pages 155-188
  8. Two Geometrical Applications of the Semi-random Method

    • Péter Hajnal, Endre Szemerédi
    Pages 189-199
  9. Configuration Spaces of Equal Spheres Touching a Given Sphere: The Twelve Spheres Problem

    • Rob Kusner, Wöden Kusner, Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Senya Shlosman
    Pages 219-277
  10. Spaces of Convex n-Partitions

    • Emerson León, Günter M. Ziegler
    Pages 279-306
  11. New Regular Compounds of 4-Polytopes

    • Peter McMullen
    Pages 307-320
  12. Flavors of Translative Coverings

    • Márton Naszódi
    Pages 335-358
  13. Incidences Between Points and Lines in Three Dimensions

    • Micha Sharir, Noam Solomon
    Pages 359-383
  14. Incidence Bounds for Complex Algebraic Curves on Cartesian Products

    • József Solymosi, Frank de Zeeuw
    Pages 385-405
  15. Combinatorial Distance Geometry in Normed Spaces

    • Konrad J. Swanepoel
    Pages 407-458
  16. Correction to: New Trends in Intuitive Geometry

    • Gergely Ambrus, Imre Bárány, Károly J. Böröczky, Gábor Fejes Tóth, János Pach
    Pages C1-C1

About this book

This volume contains 17 surveys that cover many recent developments in Discrete Geometry and related fields. Besides presenting the state-of-the-art of classical research subjects like packing and covering, it also offers an introduction to new topological, algebraic and computational methods in this very active research field. The readers will find a variety of modern topics and many fascinating open problems that may serve as starting points for research.


Editors and Affiliations

  • MTA Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary

    Gergely Ambrus, Imre Bárány, Károly J. Böröczky, Gábor Fejes Tóth, János Pach

About the editors

Gergely Ambrus is a researcher at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, working in discrete, convex and stochastic geometry and discrete analysis. He has organized several conferences in the field.

 

Imre Bárány is a research professor at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest and the Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London. His main field of interest is discrete and convex geometry, and random points and lattice points in convex bodies, with applications in computer science, operations research, and elsewhere. He was an invited speaker at ICM 2002, Beijing. He has organized several conferences in discrete and convex geometry including three in Oberwolfach on Discrete Geometry.

 

Károly J. Böröczky is a research professor at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and also a professor at the Central European University and the Loránd Eötvös University. He has organized numerous conferences on discrete and combinatorial geometry including one at AIM, and is the author of the monograph Finite Packing and Covering, published in 2004.

 

Gábor Fejes Tóth is a research professor emeritus at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. His area of research is discrete geometry and convexity. Before his retirement he headed the Department of Geometry of the Rényi Institute. He has organized several conferences in discrete and convex geometry including one in Oberwolfach on Discrete Geometry.

 

János Pach is a research professor at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and also a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His main fields of interest are combinatorics, discrete and computational geometry. He was invited speaker at ICM 2014, Seoul. He is coauthor of the monographs Combinatorial Geometry (1995) and Research Problems in Discrete Geometry (2005).



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Trends in Intuitive Geometry

  • Editors: Gergely Ambrus, Imre Bárány, Károly J. Böröczky, Gábor Fejes Tóth, János Pach

  • Series Title: Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57413-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-57412-6Published: 13 November 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-57413-3Published: 03 November 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1217-4696

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-9460

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 458

  • Number of Illustrations: 164 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Convex and Discrete Geometry, Combinatorics, Polytopes, Topology

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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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