Download or read book Near Polygons written by Bart de Bruyn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the Russian mathematician Albert Shiryaev on his 70th birthday, this is a collection of papers written by his former students, co-authors and colleagues. The book represents the state-of-the-art of a quickly maturing theory and will be an essential source for researchers in this area. The diversity of topics and comprehensive style of the papers make the book attractive for Ph.D. students and young researchers.