Daniel A. Klain, Gian-Carlo Rota

Introduction to Geometric Probability

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The basic ideas of the subject and the analogues with enumerative combinatorics are described and exploited.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9780521593625
• ISBN-10: 052159362X
• Artikelnr.: 28516722

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Buffon needle problem
2. Valuation and integral
3. A discrete lattice
4. The intrinsic volumes for parallelotopes
5. The lattice of polyconvex sets
6. Invariant measures on Grassmannians
7. The intrinsic volumes for polyconvex sets
8. A characterization theorem for volume
9. Hadwiger's characterization theorem
10. Kinematic formulas for polyconvex sets
11. Polyconvex sets in the sphere
References
Index of symbols
Index.