Nine studies review work done in the former Soviet Union on the mathematical aspects of practical problems in tomography and theoretical problems that have arisen from the use of tomography. The topics include inversion of the generalized radon transform, the computation of singular convolutions, and time series analysis and Grassmannians. Translated from unpublished Russian manuscripts. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Simon Grigorevich Gindikin (Семён Григорьевич Гиндикин), born 7 December 1937 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, is a mathematician at Rutgers University who introduced the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula for the Harish-Chandra c-function.