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Topics in Optimal Transportation (Paperback)
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Topics in Optimal Transportation (Paperback)
Series: Graduate Studies in Mathematics
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In 1781, Gaspard Monge defined the problem of ""optimal
transportation"", or the transferring of mass with the least
possible amount of work, with applications to engineering in mind.
In 1942, Leonid Kantorovich applied the newborn machinery of linear
programming to Monge's problem, with applications to economics in
mind. In 1987, Yann Brenier used optimal transportation to prove a
new projection theorem on the set of measure preserving maps, with
applications to fluid mechanics in mind. Each of these
contributions marked the beginning of a whole mathematical theory,
with many unexpected ramifications. Nowadays, the Monge-Kantorovich
problem is used and studied by researchers from extremely diverse
horizons, including probability theory, functional analysis,
isoperimetry, partial differential equations, and even meteorology.
Originating from a graduate course, the present volume is at once
an introduction to the field of optimal transportation and a survey
of the research on the topic over the last 15 years. The book is
intended for graduate students and researchers, and it covers both
theory and applications. Readers are only assumed to be familiar
with the basics of measure theory and functional analysis.
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