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Topics in Asymptotic Geometric Analysis

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Visions in Mathematics

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The term “Geometric Analysis” is a recent one but it has quickly become fashionable and is used too often and for very different mathematics. So, we added the adjective “asymptotic” to be more specific, and we will first explain the subject of this talk.

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

    V. Milman

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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

    N. Alon

  2. School of Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA

    J. Bourgain

  3. Collège de France, 3, rue d’Ulm, 75231, Paris cedex 05, France

    A. Connes

  4. Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, 35, Route de Chartres, 91440, Bures-sur-Yvette, France

    M. Gromov

  5. Department of Mathematics, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

    V. Milman

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Milman, V. (2000). Topics in Asymptotic Geometric Analysis. In: Alon, N., Bourgain, J., Connes, A., Gromov, M., Milman, V. (eds) Visions in Mathematics. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0425-3_8

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