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Convex Geometry I. Definitions, Properties and Fundamental Theorems

Author: Jean-Charles PINOLI

Publication date: November 10, 2020

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1. Preamble

1.1 Historical background

Convex geometry is a recent branch of mathematics, although the first consistent contributions date back to antiquity (the Pythagoreans (VI e century BC) and Theaetetus of Athens (IV e century BC)), Euclid of Alexandria (circa 300 BC.), Zenodorus (II e century BC)...) Archimedes of Syracuse (III e century AD) (p. 4 of , p. 112 of

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