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Topics in Optimal Transportation
This graduate textbook reviews results about the existence and regularity of the optimal mass transportation problem, introducing such topics as displacement interpolation, its applications to functional inequalities with geometric content, the Monge-Kantorovich problem, and a differential formulation of the transportation problem inspired by fluid mechanics. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
- GenresMathematics
370 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2003
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Cédric Villani
50Ìýbooks103ÌýfollowersCédric Villani is a French mathematician who has received many international awards for his work including the Jacques Herbrand Prize, the Prize of the European Mathematical Society, the Fermat Prize and the Henri Poincaré Prize.
In 2010 he was awarded the Fields Medal, the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. Often called ‘the mathematicians� Nobel Prize�, it is awarded every four years and is viewed by some as the highest honour a mathematician can achieve.
He is a professor at Lyon University and Director of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, working primarily on partial differential equations and mathematical physics.
In 2010 he was awarded the Fields Medal, the International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. Often called ‘the mathematicians� Nobel Prize�, it is awarded every four years and is viewed by some as the highest honour a mathematician can achieve.
He is a professor at Lyon University and Director of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, working primarily on partial differential equations and mathematical physics.
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