Thompson, Tony   Professor Emeritus   PhD - University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1963)   BSc - University College, London (1959)   Mail: Address   e-mail: tony@mathstat.dal.ca   Office: Chase Room 315   Tel: (902) 494-3677   Fax: (902) 494-5130   Homepage:  Dr. Tony Thompson's Website

• Research Interests:

  • Minkowski Geometry
  • Convexity
  • Geometry of Banach Spaces

• Selected Recent Publications:

  • (with J.C. Alvarez Paiva) On the perimeter and area of the unit disk,
    Amer. Math. Monthly 112 (2005) 141-154.
  
  
  
  • (with J. C. Alvarez Paiva) Volumes on normed and Finsler spaces,
    In "A Sampler of Riemann-Finsler Geometry" (D. Bao, R.L. Bryant, S.-S.
    Chern, Z. Shen Eds.) pp1-48, MSRI Publ. 50, Cambridge University Press
    2004.
  
  
  
  • Convex sets, in Vol. 3 of Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Tech-
    nology, 3rd ed. editor-in-chief Robert A. Meyers, mathematics ed. Joseph
    Kung, Academic Press, San Diego, (2001). pp. 717-737.
  
  
  
  • Geometric means of ellipsoids and other convex bodies, Rend. Circ.
    Mat. Palermo Series II Suppl. 65 (2000) 179-191
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  • On Benson's denition of area in Minkowski space, Canadian Math
    Bull. 42 (2) (1999) 237- 247.




• Research Group: Analysis

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