Luis Santaló

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Luis Santaló
Blaschke–Santaló inequality
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Buenos Aires
Doctoral advisorWilhelm Blaschke
Pedro Pineda

Luís Antoni Santaló Sors (October 9, 1911 – November 22, 2001) was a Spanish mathematician.

He graduated from the University of Madrid and he studied at the University of Hamburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1936. His advisor was Wilhelm Blaschke. Because of the Spanish Civil War, he moved to Argentina as a professor in the National University of the Littoral, National University of La Plata and University of Buenos Aires.

His work with Blaschke on convex sets[1] is now cited in its connection with Mahler volume. Blaschke and Santaló also collaborated on integral geometry. Santaló wrote textbooks in Spanish on non-Euclidean geometry, projective geometry, and tensors.

Works

Luis Santaló published in both English and Spanish:

Introduction to Integral Geometry (1953)

Chapter I. Metric integral geometry of the plane including densities and the

isoperimetric inequality. Ch. II. Integral geometry on surfaces including Blaschke's formula and the isoperimetric inequality on surfaces of constant curvature. Ch. III. General integral geometry: Lie groups
on the plane: central-affine, unimodular affine, projective groups.

Geometrias no Euclidianas (1961)

I. The Elements of Euclid II. Non-Euclidean geometries III., IV.

conics

V, VI, VII. Hyperbolic geometry: graphic properties, angles and distances, areas and curves. (This text develops the

Klein model
, the earliest instance of a model.)

VIII. Other models of non-Euclidean geometry

Geometria proyectiva (1966)

A curious feature of this book on projective geometry is the opening on

quadrics. Serious and coordinated study of this text is invited by 240 exercises
at the end of 25 sections, with solutions on pages 347–65.

Integral Geometry and Geometric Probability (1976)[2]

Amplifies and extends the 1953 text. For instance, in Chapter 19, he notes “Trends in Integral Geometry” and includes “The integral geometry of Gelfand” (p. 345) which involves inverting the Radon transform.

Vectores y tensores con sus aplicaciones (1977)

Includes standard vector algebra,

. Exercises distributed at an average rate of ten per section enhance the 36 instructional sections. Solutions are found on pages 343–64.

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