Encyclopedia of Distances

• Main Authors: Deza, Michel Marie (Author), Deza, Elena (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2014.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Visualization.; Geometry.; Differential geometry.; Topology.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Differential Geometry.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

This updated and revised third edition of the leading reference volume on distance metrics includes new items from very active research areas in the use of distances and metrics such as geometry, graph theory, probability theory and analysis. Among the new topics included are, for example, polyhedra...