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Minkowski geometry /
Minkowski geometry is a non-Euclidean geometry in a finite number of dimensions that is different from elliptic and hyperbolic geometry (and from the Minkowskian geometry of spacetime). Here the linear structure is the same as the Euclidean one but distance is not "uniform" in all directio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ;
v. 63. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The algebraic properties of linear spaces and convex sets
- 1. Norms and norm topologies
- 2. Convex bodies
- 3. Comparisons and contrasts with Euclidean space
- 4. Two-dimensional Minkowski spaces
- 5. The concept of area and content
- 6. Special properties of the Holmes-Thompson definition
- 7. Special properties of the Busemann definition
- 8. Trigonometry
- 9. Various numerical parameters
- 10. Fifty problems.