The Lebesgue universal covering problem
In 1914 Lebesgue defined a 'universal covering' to be a convex subset of the plane that contains an isometric copy of any subset of diameter 1. His challenge of finding a universal covering with the least possible area has been addressed by various mathematicians: Pál, Sprague and Hansen h...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Carleton University
2015-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Computational Geometry |
Online Access: | http://jocg.org/index.php/jocg/article/view/198 |