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Author(s):
G. Matheron
Title:
Random sets and integral geometry
Additional book information:
Wiley, New York, 1975, xxiii+261 pp., $18.95
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- R. E. Miles, Poisson flats in Euclidean spaces. I. A finite number of random uniform flats, Advances in Appl. Probability 1 (1969), 211-237. MR 41 #4606. MR 259977
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- L. A. Santaló, Introduction to integral geometry, Actualités Sci. Indust., no. 1198, Hermann, Paris, 1953. MR 15, 736. MR 60840
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
J. F. C.
Kingman
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
81
(1975),
844-847.
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1975-13853-5
PII:
S 0002-9904(1975)13853-5
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