Geometric Possibility

Geometric Possibility
Author: Gordon Belot
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780199681051

Relationalism seeks to ground all claims about the structure of space in facts about actual and possible configurations of matter. Gordon Belot elucidates the prospects for this view of the nature of space by investigating the key notion of geometric possibility in relation to philosophical notions of physical possibility.

Introduction to Geometric Probability

Introduction to Geometric Probability
Author: Daniel A. Klain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1997-12-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521596541

The purpose of this book is to present the three basic ideas of geometrical probability, also known as integral geometry, in their natural framework. In this way, the relationship between the subject and enumerative combinatorics is more transparent, and the analogies can be more productively understood. The first of the three ideas is invariant measures on polyconvex sets. The authors then prove the fundamental lemma of integral geometry, namely the kinematic formula. Finally the analogues between invariant measures and finite partially ordered sets are investigated, yielding insights into Hecke algebras, Schubert varieties and the quantum world, as viewed by mathematicians. Geometers and combinatorialists will find this a most stimulating and fruitful story.

Geometric Possibility

Geometric Possibility
Author: Gordon Belot
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199595321

Relationalism seeks to ground all claims about the structure of space in facts about actual and possible configurations of matter. Gordon Belot elucidates the prospects for this view of the nature of space by investigating the kew notion of geometric possibility in relation to philosophical notions of physical possibility.

Geometric Probability

Geometric Probability
Author: Herbert Solomon
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781611970418

Topics include: ways modern statistical procedures can yield estimates of pi more precisely than the original Buffon procedure traditionally used; the question of density and measure for random geometric elements that leave probability and expectation statements invariant under translation and rotation; the number of random line intersections in a plane and their angles of intersection; developments due to W.L. Stevens's ingenious solution for evaluating the probability that n random arcs of size a cover a unit circumference completely; the development of M.W. Crofton's mean value theorem and its applications in classical problems; and an interesting problem in geometrical probability presented by a karyograph.

Geometric Modeling in Probability and Statistics

Geometric Modeling in Probability and Statistics
Author: Ovidiu Calin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319077791

This book covers topics of Informational Geometry, a field which deals with the differential geometric study of the manifold probability density functions. This is a field that is increasingly attracting the interest of researchers from many different areas of science, including mathematics, statistics, geometry, computer science, signal processing, physics and neuroscience. It is the authors’ hope that the present book will be a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in one of the aforementioned fields. This textbook is a unified presentation of differential geometry and probability theory, and constitutes a text for a course directed at graduate or advanced undergraduate students interested in applications of differential geometry in probability and statistics. The book contains over 100 proposed exercises meant to help students deepen their understanding, and it is accompanied by software that is able to provide numerical computations of several information geometric objects. The reader will understand a flourishing field of mathematics in which very few books have been written so far.

Random Geometric Graphs

Random Geometric Graphs
Author: Mathew Penrose
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2003
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0198506260

This monograph provides and explains the mathematics behind geometric graph theory. Applications of this theory are used on the study of neural networks, spread of disease, astrophysics and spatial statistics.

Integral Geometry and Geometric Probability

Integral Geometry and Geometric Probability
Author: Luis A. Santaló
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2004-10-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0521523443

Classic text on integral geometry now available in paperback in the Cambridge Mathematical Library.

Geometry, Analysis and Probability

Geometry, Analysis and Probability
Author: Jean-Benoît Bost
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2017-04-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319496387

This volume presents original research articles and extended surveys related to the mathematical interest and work of Jean-Michel Bismut. His outstanding contributions to probability theory and global analysis on manifolds have had a profound impact on several branches of mathematics in the areas of control theory, mathematical physics and arithmetic geometry. Contributions by: K. Behrend N. Bergeron S. K. Donaldson J. Dubédat B. Duplantier G. Faltings E. Getzler G. Kings R. Mazzeo J. Millson C. Moeglin W. Müller R. Rhodes D. Rössler S. Sheffield A. Teleman G. Tian K-I. Yoshikawa H. Weiss W. Werner The collection is a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers in these fields.

The Geometry of Uncertainty

The Geometry of Uncertainty
Author: Fabio Cuzzolin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2021-12-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783030631550

The principal aim of this book is to introduce to the widest possible audience an original view of belief calculus and uncertainty theory. In this geometric approach to uncertainty, uncertainty measures can be seen as points of a suitably complex geometric space, and manipulated in that space, for example, combined or conditioned. In the chapters in Part I, Theories of Uncertainty, the author offers an extensive recapitulation of the state of the art in the mathematics of uncertainty. This part of the book contains the most comprehensive summary to date of the whole of belief theory, with Chap. 4 outlining for the first time, and in a logical order, all the steps of the reasoning chain associated with modelling uncertainty using belief functions, in an attempt to provide a self-contained manual for the working scientist. In addition, the book proposes in Chap. 5 what is possibly the most detailed compendium available of all theories of uncertainty. Part II, The Geometry of Uncertainty, is the core of this book, as it introduces the author’s own geometric approach to uncertainty theory, starting with the geometry of belief functions: Chap. 7 studies the geometry of the space of belief functions, or belief space, both in terms of a simplex and in terms of its recursive bundle structure; Chap. 8 extends the analysis to Dempster’s rule of combination, introducing the notion of a conditional subspace and outlining a simple geometric construction for Dempster’s sum; Chap. 9 delves into the combinatorial properties of plausibility and commonality functions, as equivalent representations of the evidence carried by a belief function; then Chap. 10 starts extending the applicability of the geometric approach to other uncertainty measures, focusing in particular on possibility measures (consonant belief functions) and the related notion of a consistent belief function. The chapters in Part III, Geometric Interplays, are concerned with the interplay of uncertainty measures of different kinds, and the geometry of their relationship, with a particular focus on the approximation problem. Part IV, Geometric Reasoning, examines the application of the geometric approach to the various elements of the reasoning chain illustrated in Chap. 4, in particular conditioning and decision making. Part V concludes the book by outlining a future, complete statistical theory of random sets, future extensions of the geometric approach, and identifying high-impact applications to climate change, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The book is suitable for researchers in artificial intelligence, statistics, and applied science engaged with theories of uncertainty. The book is supported with the most comprehensive bibliography on belief and uncertainty theory.

High-Dimensional Probability

High-Dimensional Probability
Author: Roman Vershynin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2018-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108415199

An integrated package of powerful probabilistic tools and key applications in modern mathematical data science.