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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821708203321

Autore

Fiedler Miroslav

Titolo

Matrices and Graphs in Geometry / / Miroslav Fiedler [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-88657-6

1-107-38379-X

1-107-29917-9

0-511-97361-6

1-107-39865-7

1-107-39023-0

1-107-38735-3

1-107-39502-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; ; volume 139

Classificazione

MAT038000

Disciplina

516

Soggetti

Geometry

Matrices

Graphic methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Matricial approach to Euclidean geometry -- Simplex geometry -- Qualitative properties of the angles in a simplex -- Special simplexes -- Further geometric objects -- Applications.

Sommario/riassunto

Simplex geometry is a topic generalizing geometry of the triangle and tetrahedron. The appropriate tool for its study is matrix theory, but applications usually involve solving huge systems of linear equations or eigenvalue problems, and geometry can help in visualizing the behaviour of the problem. In many cases, solving such systems may depend more on the distribution of non-zero coefficients than on their values, so graph theory is also useful. The author has discovered a method that in many (symmetric) cases helps to split huge systems into smaller parts. Many readers will welcome this book, from undergraduates to specialists in mathematics, as well as non-



specialists who only use mathematics occasionally, and anyone who enjoys geometric theorems. It acquaints the reader with basic matrix theory, graph theory and elementary Euclidean geometry so that they too can appreciate the underlying connections between these various areas of mathematics and computer science.