Dalhousie University Mathematics and Statistics

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Anthony Thompson Director of Mathematics Division Department of Mathematics and Statistics Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5 Office: Chase Building, Room 315 Phone: (902) 494-3677 FAX: (902) 494-5130 E-mail: tony@mscs.dal.ca

Education
• Ph.D. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, (1963)
• B.Sc. (Honours), University College, London, UK, (1959)

Research Interests
• Minkowski Geometry: the geometry of finite-dimensional normed spaces with particular interest in questions of area, volume and the isoperimetric problem.
• Convexity
• Geometry of Banach Spaces

Teaching
• 1999 - 2000 Academic Year: Mathematics Section, Dalhousie Integrated Science Programme

Publications
Books:
• Minkowski Geometry: Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Application s, Vol. 63, Cambridge University Press, (1996)
• Theory of Correspondences, including applications to Mathematical Economics,with Erwin Klein, Canadian Mathematics Society Monograph Series, Vol. 2, Wiley, (1984)


Articles:
• On Benson's definition of area in Minkowski space, Canada Mathematics Bulletin 42 (1999) 237 - 247
• (with Alan Thompson) The divergence theorem and the Laplacian in Minkowski space, Geom. Dedicata 63 (1996) 159 - 170
• Odd magic powers, Amer. Math. Monthly 101 (1994) 339 - 342
• Applications of various inequalities in Minkowski geometry, Geom. Dedicata 46 (1993) 215 - 231
• (with R.D. Holmes) N-dimensional area and content in Minkowski spaces, Pacific J. Math. 85 (1979) 77 - 110
• (with M. Edelstein) Some results on nearest points and support properties of convex sets in c₀, Pacific J. Math. 40 (1972) 553 - 560.
• On certain contraction mappings in a partially ordered vector spcae, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1963) 438 - 443

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Tony Thomspon
21 - 08 - 2000