
Geometry In Present Day Science - Proceedings Of The Conference
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Will be published approx. on 30. March 1999
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-981-02-3672-4 (ISBN)
Description
This proceedings volume focusses on the applications of geometry in present day science. It contains contributions from a variety of fields, including biology, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics and stochastics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
ISBN-13
978-981-02-3672-4 (9789810236724)
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Persons
Content
Quantum geometry, J. Ambjorn; extending the Fisher metric to density matrices, D. Petz and Cs Sudar; geometry of quantum information systems, A. Fujiwara; information geometric analysis of an interior point method for semidefinite programming, A. Ohara; diffusion processes, manifolds of exponential densities, and nonlinear filtering, D. Brigo; from computerized to geometric and discrete topography, R.J. Gardner; the use of the generalized Blaschke-Petkantschin formula in local stereology and its proof by induction, E.B.V. Jensen and J. Nielsen; the stereological estimation of the Euler-Poincare characteristic exemplified with networks of capillaries and cancellous bone, J.R. Nyengaard and H.J.G. Gundersen; geometry, statistics and shape, W.S. Kendall; solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations - a geometric approach, S.D. Peckham; Voronoi diagrams and Morse theory of the distance function, D. Siersma.