Geometry where direction matters -- or does it?

DOI10.1007/S00283-011-9233-4MaRDI QIDQ645313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Horst Martini, Margarita Spirova, Konrad J. Swanepoel

Publication date 14 November 2011

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-011-9233-4

zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski spaceBanach-Mazur distanceMinkowski geometryequilateral setFermat-Torricelli problemtriangle geometryabsorbing Fermat-Torricelli configurationfinite dimensional normed spacefloating Fermat-Torricelli configurationKusner's problemReuleaux triangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and structure of normed linear spaces (46B20) Convexity and finite-dimensional Banach spaces (including special norms, zonoids, etc.) (aspects of convex geometry) (52A21) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to convex and discrete geometry (52-02) Continuous location (90B85) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to geometry (51-02)

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