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Proximities Revisited

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This chapter takes another look at the very rich proximity landscape. An overview of the proximity landscape is given in the life and work of S.A. Naimpally (Som) (Beer et al., Topol Appl 188:97–109, 2015), [1]. This is a remarkable story of a mathematician who began studying proximity space theory after he completed his Ph.D. as a result of a chance meeting at the University of Michigan between Som and a visitor from Cambridge University Press, who invited him to write a monograph on proximity.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Many thanks to Braden Cross for the webcam image in Fig. 2.2, captured using the Matlab Computer Vision System toolbox and Matlab implementation of the Canny edge detection algorithm.

  2. 2.

    Many thanks to Binglin Li for this hand image in Fig. 2.4.

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    Pointed out by I. Dochviri.

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    Many thanks to A. Vacavant for pointing this out.

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Peters, J.F. (2016). Proximities Revisited. In: Computational Proximity. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 102. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30262-1_2

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