Selected Topics in Integral Geometry

Selected Topics in Integral Geometry
Author: Izrail_ Moiseevich Gel_fand
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821898048

The miracle of integral geometry is that it is often possible to recover a function on a manifold just from the knowledge of its integrals over certain submanifolds. The founding example is the Radon transform, introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, many other transforms were found, and the general theory was developed. Moreover, many important practical applications were discovered, the best known, but by no means the only one, being to medical tomography. The present book is a general introduction to integral geometry, the first from this point of view for almost four decades. The authors, all leading experts in the field, represent one of the most influential schools in integral geometry. The book presents in detail basic examples of integral geometry problems, such as the Radon transform on the plane and in space, the John transform, the Minkowski-Funk transform, integral geometry on the hyperbolic plane and in the hyperbolic space, the horospherical transform and its relation to representations of $SL(2,\mathbb C)$, integral geometry on quadrics, etc. The study of these examples allows the authors to explain important general topics of integral geometry, such as the Cavalieri conditions, local and nonlocal inversion formulas, and overdetermined problems. Many of the results in the book were obtained by the authors in the course of their career-long work in integral geometry.

Selected Topics in Integral Geometry

Selected Topics in Integral Geometry
Author: Izrailʹ Moiseevich Gelʹfand
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2003
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821829325

The miracle of integral geometry is that it is often possible to recover a function on a manifold just from the knowledge of its integrals over certain submanifolds. The founding example is the Radon transform, introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, many other transforms were found, and the general theory was developed. Moreover, many important practical applications were discovered. The best known, but by no means the only one, being to medical tomography. This book is a general introduction to integral geometry, the first from this point of view for almost four decades. The authors, all leading experts in the field, represent one of the most influential schools in integral geometry. The book presents in detail basic examples of integral geometry problems, such as the Radon transform on the plane and in space, the John transform, the Minkowski-Funk transform, integral geometry on the hyperbolic plane and in the hyperbolic space, the horospherical transform and its relation to representations of $SL(2,\mathbb C)$, integral geometry on quadrics, etc. The study of these examples allows the authors to explain important general topics of integral geometry, such as the Cavalieri conditions, local and nonlocal inversion formulas, and overdetermined problems in integral geometry. Many of the results in the book were obtained by the authors in the course of their career-long work in integral geometry. This book is suitable for graduate students and researchers working in integral geometry and its applications.

Mathematics++

Mathematics++
Author: Ida Kantor
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470422611

Mathematics++ is a concise introduction to six selected areas of 20th century mathematics providing numerous modern mathematical tools used in contemporary research in computer science, engineering, and other fields. The areas are: measure theory, high-dimensional geometry, Fourier analysis, representations of groups, multivariate polynomials, and topology. For each of the areas, the authors introduce basic notions, examples, and results. The presentation is clear and accessible, stressing intuitive understanding, and it includes carefully selected exercises as an integral part. Theory is complemented by applications--some quite surprising--in theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics. The chapters are independent of one another and can be studied in any order. It is assumed that the reader has gone through the basic mathematics courses. Although the book was conceived while the authors were teaching Ph.D. students in theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, it will be useful for a much wider audience, such as mathematicians specializing in other areas, mathematics students deciding what specialization to pursue, or experts in engineering or other fields.

Integral Geometry and Radon Transforms

Integral Geometry and Radon Transforms
Author: Sigurdur Helgason
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1441960546

In this text, integral geometry deals with Radon’s problem of representing a function on a manifold in terms of its integrals over certain submanifolds—hence the term the Radon transform. Examples and far-reaching generalizations lead to fundamental problems such as: (i) injectivity, (ii) inversion formulas, (iii) support questions, (iv) applications (e.g., to tomography, partial di erential equations and group representations). For the case of the plane, the inversion theorem and the support theorem have had major applications in medicine through tomography and CAT scanning. While containing some recent research, the book is aimed at beginning graduate students for classroom use or self-study. A number of exercises point to further results with documentation. From the reviews: “Integral Geometry is a fascinating area, where numerous branches of mathematics meet together. the contents of the book is concentrated around the duality and double vibration, which is realized through the masterful treatment of a variety of examples. the book is written by an expert, who has made fundamental contributions to the area.” —Boris Rubin, Louisiana State University

Selected Topics in Integral Geometry

Selected Topics in Integral Geometry
Author: Izrailʹ Moiseevich Gelʹfand
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2003
Genre: Integral geometry
ISBN: 9781470446444

The miracle of integral geometry is that it is often possible to recover a function on a manifold just from the knowledge of its integrals over certain submanifolds. The founding example is the Radon transform, introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, many other transforms were found, and the general theory was developed. Moreover, many important practical applications were discovered, the best known, but by no means the only one, being to medical tomography. The present book is a general introduction to integral geometry, the first from this point of view for almost four d.

Lectures on Convex Geometry

Lectures on Convex Geometry
Author: Daniel Hug
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-08-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3030501809

This book provides a self-contained introduction to convex geometry in Euclidean space. After covering the basic concepts and results, it develops Brunn–Minkowski theory, with an exposition of mixed volumes, the Brunn–Minkowski inequality, and some of its consequences, including the isoperimetric inequality. Further central topics are then treated, such as surface area measures, projection functions, zonoids, and geometric valuations. Finally, an introduction to integral-geometric formulas in Euclidean space is provided. The numerous exercises and the supplementary material at the end of each section form an essential part of the book. Convexity is an elementary and natural concept. It plays a key role in many mathematical fields, including functional analysis, optimization, probability theory, and stochastic geometry. Paving the way to the more advanced and specialized literature, the material will be accessible to students in the third year and can be covered in one semester.

Reconstruction from Integral Data

Reconstruction from Integral Data
Author: Victor Palamodov
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2016-04-27
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1498710115

Reconstruction of a function from data of integrals is used for problems arising in diagnostics, including x-ray, positron radiography, ultrasound, scattering, sonar, seismic, impedance, wave tomography, crystallography, photo-thermo-acoustics, photoelastics, and strain tomography. Reconstruction from Integral Data presents both long-standing and r

The Mathematical Legacy of Leon Ehrenpreis

The Mathematical Legacy of Leon Ehrenpreis
Author: Irene Sabadini
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012-04-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 8847019478

Leon Ehrenpreis has been one of the leading mathematicians in the twentieth century. His contributions to the theory of partial differential equations were part of the golden era of PDEs, and led him to what is maybe his most important contribution, the Fundamental Principle, which he announced in 1960, and fully demonstrated in 1970. His most recent work, on the other hand, focused on a novel and far reaching understanding of the Radon transform, and offered new insights in integral geometry. Leon Ehrenpreis died in 2010, and this volume collects writings in his honor by a cadre of distinguished mathematicians, many of which were his collaborators.

Microlocal Analysis and Inverse Problems in Tomography and Geometry

Microlocal Analysis and Inverse Problems in Tomography and Geometry
Author: Eric Todd Quinto
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2024-09-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3111337480

Microlocal Analysis has proven to be a powerful tool for analyzing and solving inverse problems; including answering questions about stability, uniqueness, recovery of singularities, etc. This volume, presents several studies on microlocal methods in problems in tomography, integral geometry, geodesic transforms, travel time tomography, thermoacoustic tomography, Compton CT, cosmology, nonlinear inverse problems, and others.