Tony Thompson
Professor Emeritus
Email: tony@mathstat.dal.ca
Phone: (604) 734-8446
Mailing Address:
#504, 2324 W 1st Ave.,
Vancouver, BC.
V6K 1G3
Research Topics:Vancouver, BC.
V6K 1G3
- Analysis
- Minkowski geometry
- Convex geometry
Office Number: Chase Room 315
Education: PhD - University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (1963)
BSc - University College, London, UK (1959)
Scholarly Interests: Minkowski Geometry, Convexity and Geometry of Banach Spaces.
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.
- Minkowski Geometry, Encyclopedia of Math and its Applications, volume 63, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996
Personal site: http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~tony/