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Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary

Proceedings of the Buffon Bicentenary Symposium on Geometrical Probability, Image Analysis, Mathematical Stereology, and Their Relevance to the Determination of Biological Structures, Held in Paris, June 1977

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. Roger E. Miles

    1. Department of Statistics Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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  2. Jean Serra

    1. Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, France

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (LNBM, volume 23)

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Table of contents (28 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-XII
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  2. Opening Speech

    1. Opening Speech

      • Jean Dry
      Pages 1-2

  3. Historical

    1. En Matiere D’Introduction...

      • R. E. Miles, J. Serra
      Pages 3-28

    2. Buffon and Mathematics

      • Jacques Roger
      Pages 29-35

  4. Geometrical Probability (Applied)

    1. The Stereological Analysis of Two-Phase Particles

      • Rodney Coleman
      Pages 37-48

    2. On the Distance Between Points in Polygons

      • Harold Ruben
      Pages 49-69

  6. Mathematical Stereology

    1. Stereological Uses of the Area Tangent Count

      • R. T. DeHoff
      Pages 99-113

    2. The importance of proper model specification in stereology

      • R. E. Miles
      Pages 115-136
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistics Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Roger E. Miles

  • Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau, France

    Jean Serra

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Buffon Bicentenary Symposium on Geometrical Probability, Image Analysis, Mathematical Stereology, and Their Relevance to the Determination of Biological Structures, Held in Paris, June 1977

  • Editors: Roger E. Miles, Jean Serra

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93089-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-08856-1Published: 01 June 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-93089-8Published: 08 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0341-633X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9981

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 340

  • Topics: Applications of Mathematics

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