Morphology of Condensed Matter

Prof. Dr. Dietrich Stoyan, geboren 1940, war Mathematik-Professor an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, von 1991 bis 1997 ihr Rektor. Er publizierte zahlreiche mathematische Bücher und ist Mitglied der Leopoldina und anderer Wissenschaftsakademien. In letzter Zeit widmet er sich der Freiberger Universitätsgeschichte.

Complex Structured Condensed Matter.- Spatial Statistics and Micromechanics of Materials.- Characterising the Morphology of Disordered Materials.- Topological Characterization of Porous Media.- Nanotomography: Real-Space Volume Imaging with Scanning Probe Microscopy.- Bicontinuous Surfaces in Self-assembling Amphiphilic Systems.- Morphology of Langmuir Monolayer Phases.- Spatial Order in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations of Systems of Ellipsoids.- Two-Dimensional Fluid Foams at Equilibrium.- Spatial Statistics and Morphology.- Morphological Texture Analysis: An Introduction.- Vector- and Tensor-Valued Descriptors for Spatial Patterns.- Computational Topology for Point Data: Betti Numbers of ?-Shapes.- The Euler Number of Discretized Sets On the Choice of Adjacency in Homogeneous Lattices.- Shape Statistics for Random Domains and Particles.- A Survey on Contact Distributions.- Mark Correlations: Relating Physical Properties to Spatial Distributions.- Spatial Jump Processes and Perfect Simulation.- Statistics for Non-sparse Spatially Homogeneous Gibbs Point Processes.- Spatial Statistics of a Turbulent Random Multiplicative Branching Process.

"In short, this book presents a state of art description of a rapidly growing area of research. Undoubtedly it will be a good reference for the specialists working in soft condensed matter science." (The Physicist, 40/5, 2003)