The Cross-Section Body, Plane Sections of Convex Bodies and Approximation of Convex Bodies, II

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 283-303

  Makai Jr , E ^a   Martini, H ^b  

^a ALFRÉD RÉNYI INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Hungary)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approximation; Cross section body; Ellipsoids; Projections; Random polytopes; Sections

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039736383     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1004955802773     Document Type: Article

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