Optimal Transport: Old and New
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"Optimal Transport: Old and New" is a comprehensive monograph by Cédric Villani that develops the theory of optimal transport and its applications across analysis, geometry, and probability.
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Target entity: Optimal Transport: Old and New Context triple: [Cédric Villani, notableWork, Optimal Transport: Old and New]
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Perelman’s entropy functionals
Perelman’s entropy functionals are analytic quantities introduced by Grigori Perelman to study the behavior and singularities of the Ricci flow, playing a central role in his proof of the Poincaré and geometrization conjectures.
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Carathéodory’s theorem in convex geometry
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Grothendieck inequality
The Grothendieck inequality is a fundamental result in functional analysis and theoretical computer science that bounds certain bilinear forms and has deep implications for Banach space theory, operator theory, and approximation algorithms.
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Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint
"Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint" is a classic introductory monograph on differential topology that presents key concepts such as smooth manifolds, vector bundles, and characteristic classes in a concise and accessible style.
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Méthodes de calcul différentiel absolu et leurs applications
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Target entity: Optimal Transport: Old and New Target entity description: "Optimal Transport: Old and New" is a comprehensive monograph by Cédric Villani that develops the theory of optimal transport and its applications across analysis, geometry, and probability.
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A.
Perelman’s entropy functionals
Perelman’s entropy functionals are analytic quantities introduced by Grigori Perelman to study the behavior and singularities of the Ricci flow, playing a central role in his proof of the Poincaré and geometrization conjectures.
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B.
Carathéodory’s theorem in convex geometry
Carathéodory’s theorem in convex geometry is a fundamental result stating that any point in the convex hull of a set in ℝⁿ can be expressed as a convex combination of at most n+1 points from that set.
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C.
Grothendieck inequality
The Grothendieck inequality is a fundamental result in functional analysis and theoretical computer science that bounds certain bilinear forms and has deep implications for Banach space theory, operator theory, and approximation algorithms.
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D.
Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint
"Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint" is a classic introductory monograph on differential topology that presents key concepts such as smooth manifolds, vector bundles, and characteristic classes in a concise and accessible style.
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E.
Méthodes de calcul différentiel absolu et leurs applications
Méthodes de calcul différentiel absolu et leurs applications is a foundational mathematical work that systematically develops the theory of tensor calculus and its applications, laying groundwork later used in general relativity.
- F. None of above. chosen
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book
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mathematics monograph ⓘ nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Cédric Villani ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | Germany ⓘ |
| field |
geometry
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mathematical analysis ⓘ optimal transport theory ⓘ probability theory ⓘ |
| hasPart |
applications to curvature and geometry
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applications to functional inequalities ⓘ historical overview of optimal transport ⓘ systematic exposition of modern optimal transport theory ⓘ technical appendices ⓘ |
| isbn | 978-3-540-71049-3 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comprehensive treatment of optimal transport
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linking optimal transport with curvature and geometric analysis ⓘ standard reference in optimal transport theory ⓘ |
| pageCount | 973 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| publisher | Springer ⓘ |
| series |
Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften
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surface form:
Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften
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| subject |
Brenier map
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Kantorovich duality ⓘ Kantorovich problem in optimal transport ⓘ
surface form:
Monge–Kantorovich problem
Ricci curvature ⓘ differential geometry ⓘ
surface form:
Riemannian geometry
Wasserstein distance ⓘ
surface form:
Wasserstein distances
applications to PDEs ⓘ applications to geometric inequalities ⓘ applications to probability theory ⓘ concentration of measure ⓘ convex analysis ⓘ displacement convexity ⓘ functional inequalities ⓘ gradient flows in metric spaces ⓘ mass transportation problems ⓘ partial differential equations ⓘ probability measures on metric spaces ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
graduate students in mathematics
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researchers in analysis ⓘ researchers in geometry ⓘ researchers in probability theory ⓘ |
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