On methods for generating uniform random points on the surface of a sphere

DOI10.1007/BF02532791zbMath0437.65008OpenAlexW2069643214MaRDI QIDQ1141451

Yoshihiro Tashiro

Publication date: 1977

Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02532791

zbMATH Keywords

differential-geometric view-pointsurface of a unit n-sphereuniform random points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random number generation in numerical analysis (65C10)

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