Shape and Shape Theory (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Rating:
Summary: Not at all a "practical" book!
Review: I would like to point out that the back text is a bit misleading, to say the least. It makes references to engineers, computer scientists and "a variety of practical examples", but the book is completely theoretical and not at all suited for someone who actually wants to use shape theory. For those people, "Statistical shape analysis" by Dryden and Mardia is much better suited. Once you have read this, you can get some interesting theoretical background from Kendall's book. For mathematicians this is quite likely the right choice.