Preface
Chapter 1. Convex bodies: classical geometric inequalities
1.1. Basic convexity
1.2. Brunn-Minkowski inequality
1.3. Volume preserving transformations
1.4. Functional forms
1.5. Applications of the Brunn-Minkowski inequality
1.6. Minkowski's problem
1.7. Notes and remarks
Chapter 2. Classical positions of convex bodies
2.1. John's theorem
2.2. Minimal mean width position
2.3. Minimal surface area position
2.4. Reverse isoperimetric inequality
2.5. Notes and remarks
Chapter 3. Isomorphic isoperimetric inequalities and concentration of measure
3.1. An approach through extremal sets, and the basic terminology
3.2. Deviation inequalities for Lipschitz functions on classical metric probability spaces
3.3. Concentration on homogeneous spaces
3.4. An approach through conditional expectation and martingales
3.5. Khintchine type inequalities
3.6. Raz's Lemma
3.7. Notes and remarks
Chapter 4. Metric entropy and covering numbers estimates
4.1. Covering numbers
4.2. Sudakov's inequality and its dual
4.3. Entropy numbers and approximation numbers
4.4. Duality of entropy
4.5. Notes and remarks
Chapter 5. Almost Euclidean subspaces of finite dimensional normed spaces
5.1. Dvoretzky type theorems
5.2. Milman's proof
5.3. The critical dimension k(X)
5.4. Euclidean subspaees of gp
5.5. Volume ratio and Kashin's theorem
5.6. Global form of the Dvoretzky-Milman theorem
5.7. Isomorphic phase transitions and thresholds
5.8. Small ball estimates
5.9. Dependence on E
5.10. Notes and remarks
Chapter 6. The g-position and the Rademacher projection
6.1. Hermite polynomials
6.2. Pisier's inequality
6.3. The Rademacher projection
6.4. The l-norm
6.5. The MM*-estimate
6.6. Equivalence of the two projections
6.7. Bourgain's example
6.8. Notes and remarks
Chapter 7. Proportional Theory