Theory of convex structures:
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Main Author: Vel, Marcel van de 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam North-Holland 1993
Series:North-Holland mathematical library 50
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-528) and index
Presented in this monograph is the current state-of-the-art in the theory of convex structures. The notion of convexity covered here is considerably broader than the classic one; specifically, it is not restricted to the context of vector spaces. Classical concepts of order-convex sets (Birkhoff) and of geodesically convex sets (Menger) are directly inspired by intuition; they go back to the first half of this century. An axiomatic approach started to develop in the early Fifties. The author became attracted to it in the mid-Seventies, resulting in the present volume, in which graphs appear side-by-side with Banach spaces, classical geometry with matroids, and ordered sets with metric spaces. A wide variety of results has been included (ranging for instance from the area of partition calculus to that of continuous selection). The tools involved are borrowed from areas ranging from discrete mathematics to infinite-dimensional topology. Although addressed primarily to the researcher, parts of this monograph can be used as a basis for a well-balanced, one-semester graduate course
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 540 Seiten)
ISBN:9780080933108
0080933106
0444815058
9780444815057
1282258494
9781282258495

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