A Menger Redux: Embedding Metric Spaces Isometrically in Euclidean Space

2017/01/01 by John C. Bowers, Philip L. Bowers
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #Fixed Point Theorems Analysis #Mathematics and Applications

paper · doi:10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.7.621

Abstract

We present geometric proofs of Menger's results on isometrically embedding metric spaces in Euclidean space.

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