Jesus De Loera
University of California
Industrial, Lunchbox Lecture
PIMS/Shell Lunchbox Lecture: One Hundred Years of Helly's Theorem
The classical theorem of Edouard Helly (1913) is a masterpiece of geometry. In the simplest form it states that if a family $\Gamma$ of convex sets in $R^n$ has the property that every $n+1$ of the sets have a non-empty intersection, then all the...