The Cube-A Window to Convex and Discrete Geometry: 168 (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, Series Number 168) - Hardcover

Zong, Chuanming

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521855357 ISBN 13: 9780521855358

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This tract has two purposes: to show what is known about the n-dimensional unit cubes and to demonstrate how Analysis, Algebra, Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry, Number Theory, can be applied to the study of them. The unit cubes, from any point of view, are among the most important and fascinating objects in an n-dimensional Euclidean space. However, our knowledge about them is still quite limited and many basic problems remain unsolved. In this Tract eight topics about the unit cubes are introduced: cross sections, projections, inscribed simplices, triangulations, 0/1 polytopes, Minkowski's conjecture, Furtwangler's conjecture, and Keller's conjecture. In particular the author demonstrates how deep analysis like log concave measure and the Brascamp-Lieb inequality can deal with the cross section problem, how Hyperbolic Geometry helps with the triangulation problem, how group rings can deal with Minkowski's conjecture and Furtwangler's conjecture, and how Graph Theory handles Keller's conjecture.

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"Because this book is a love letter to the unity of mathematics, readers can hardly but come to share Zong's undisguised enthusiasm...Highly recommended." -- Choice

Book Description

This tract has two purposes: to show what is known about the n-dimensional unit cubes and to demonstrate how Analysis, Algebra, Combinatorics, Graph Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry, Number Theory, can be applied to the study of them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521855357
• ISBN 13: 9780521855358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 184