One hundred years since the introduction of the set distance by Dimitrie Pompeiu

Abstract

This paper recalls the work of D. Pompeiu who introduced the notion of set distance in his thesis published one century ago. The notion was further studied by F. Hausdorff, C. Kuratowski who acknowledged in their books the contribution of Pompeiu and it is frequently called the Hausdorff distance. © 2006 International Federation for Information Processing.