Dictionary of Distances/ (Record no. 687881)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780444520876
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 510.3
Item number DEZ
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Personal name Deza, Michel-Marie
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Title Dictionary of Distances/
Statement of responsibility, etc Michel-Marie Deza, Elena Deza
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication NY:
Name of publisher Elsevier Science,
Year of publication 2004.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 314 p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This book comes out of need and urgency (expressed especially in areas of Information Retrieval with respect to Image, Audio, Internet and Biology) to have a working tool to compare data.The book will provide powerful resource for all researchers using Mathematics as well as for mathematicians themselves. In the time when over-specialization and terminology fences isolate researchers, this Dictionary try to be "centripedal" and "oikoumeni", providing some access and altitude of vision but without taking the route of scientific vulgarisation. This attempted balance is the main philosophy of this Dictionary which defined its structure and style.Key features:- Unicity: it is the first book treating the basic notion of Distance in whole generality.- Interdisciplinarity: this Dictionary is larger in scope than majority of thematic dictionaries.- Encyclopedicity: while an Encyclopedia of Distances seems now too difficult to produce, this book (by its scope, short introductions and organization) provides the main material for it and for future tutorials on some parts of this material.- Applicability: the distances, as well as distance-related notions and paradigms, are provided in ready-to-use fashion.- Worthiness: the need and urgency for such dictionary was great in several huge areas, esp. Information Retrieval, Image Analysis, Speech Recognition and Biology.- Accessibility: the definitions are easy to locate by subject or, in Index, by alphabetic order; the introductions and definitions are reader-friendly and maximally independent one from another; still the text is structured, in the 3D HTML style, by hyperlink-like boldfaced references to similar definitions.
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Topical Term Mathematics of Distances
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Deza, Elena
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        Reference Dept. of Futures Studies Dept. of Futures Studies Reference 01/06/2023 9736.40 R 510.3 DEZ DFSN4 01/06/2023 Book