An inequality that subsumes the inequalities of Radon, Bohr, and Shannon

George Plya urged that specialization and generalization should go hand-in-hand. He likened specialization to a monkey climbing down a tree, and generalization to a monkey climbing up a tree. The present development is an example of three seemingly unrelated special inequalities that give rise to a...

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Published in:Annals of operations research 2013-09, Vol.208 (1), p.31-36
Main Authors: Olkin, Ingram, Shepp, Larry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business and Management
Combinatorics
Inequalities (Mathematics)
Inequality
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
Studies
Theory of Computation
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Summary:George Plya urged that specialization and generalization should go hand-in-hand. He likened specialization to a monkey climbing down a tree, and generalization to a monkey climbing up a tree. The present development is an example of three seemingly unrelated special inequalities that give rise to a common generalization.
ISSN:0254-5330
1572-9338
DOI:10.1007/s10479-011-1054-5