Leo Liberti is a research director at CNRS and a professor at Ecole Polytechnique, France. Professor Liberti's mathematical and optimization-related research interests are broad and his publications are extensive. In addition to co-authorship of this present textbook, he has co-edited two volumes with Springer: Distance Geometry, (c) 2013, 978-1-4614-5127-3 and Global Optimization: From Theory to Implementation, (c) 2008, 978-0-387-28260-2.

Carlile Lavor is a Full Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. His main research interests are related to theory and applications of distance geometry and geometric algebra. In addition to co-authorship of this present textbook, he is co-author of the SpringerBrief Introduction to Distance Geometry Applied to Molecular Geometry, (c) 2017, 978-3-319-57182-9, and co-editor of Distance Geometry, (c) 2013, 978-1-4614-5127-3.

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Essential and well-illustrated guide to distance geometry

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Details all mathematical prerequisites in an appendix

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