Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1986 · 300 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesComputer ScienceMathematicsAlgorithmsComputational GeometrySet TheoryApproximation AlgorithmsFractal GeometryGeometric ApproximationInverse ProblemsSet SystemsContraction Mapping PrincipleContraction MappingsContraction PrincipleFractal AnalysisInverse Problem SolvingInverse Problem Theory
The problem of providing succinct approximate descriptions of given bounded subsets of R(n) can be solved by application of the contraction mapping principle.