Geometry and Billiards

ISBN-13: 9780821839195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 176 str.

Serge Tabachnikov

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Describes billiards and their relation with differential geometry, classical mechanics, and geometrical optics. This book covers such topics as variational principles of billiard motion, and symplectic geometry of rays of light and integral geometry. It is