Geometry where direction matters -- or does it?

DOI10.1007/s00283-011-9233-4zbMath1233.52005OpenAlexW2033873183MaRDI QIDQ645313

Margarita Spirova, Horst Martini, 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 spacetriangle geometryBanach-Mazur distanceMinkowski geometryequilateral setFermat-Torricelli problemabsorbing Fermat-Torricelli configurationfinite dimensional normed spacefloating Fermat-Torricelli configurationKusner's problemReuleaux triangle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuous location (90B85) 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) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to geometry (51-02)

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