Introduction to the English edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2009
Summary
This book originally appeared in Russian almost twenty years ago; nevertheless it is as fresh now as then. No better exposition of the main results has since appeared, and the problems stated at the end of the book still remain unsolved.
I would like to mention two books which appeared after this volume and which are closely related to this material. The first is “The Decomposition of Figures into Smaller Parts” by the same authors, which appeared in English translation in the University of Chicago Press in 1980, and also the book of V.G. Boltyansky and P.S. Soltan “Combinatorial Geometry of Different Classes of Convex Sets” Stiintsa, Kishinev, 1978 (in Russian). The first book is a popular book devoted only to combinatorial problems of the plane, and the second book is on the level of mathematical research monographs.
Finally, I would like to thank Cambridge University Press and Dr. David Tranah for their interest and cooperation.
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- Results and Problems in Combinatorial Geometry , pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985