This monograph is devoted to a completely new approach to geometric problems arising in the study of random fields. The groundbreaking material in Part III, for which the background is carefully prepared in Parts I and II, is of both theoretical and practical importance, and striking in the way in which problems arising in geometry and probability are beautifully intertwined.

The three parts to the monograph are quite distinct. Part I presents a user-friendly yet comprehensive background to the general theory of Gaussian random fields, treating classical topics such as continuity and boundedness, entropy and majorizing measures, Borell and Slepian inequalities. Part II gives a quick review of geometry, both integral and Riemannian, to provide the reader with the material needed for Part III, as well as providing some new results and new proofs of known results along the way. Topics such as Crofton formulae, curvature measures for stratified manifolds, critical point theory, and tube formulae are covered. In fact, this is the only concise, self-contained treatment of all of the above topics, which are necessary for the study of random fields. The new approach in Part III is devoted to the geometry of excursion sets of random fields and the related Euler characteristic approach to extremal probabilities.

Recasts old topics in random fields by following a completely new way of handling both geometry and probability Significant exposition of the work of others in the field Excellent reference work as well as excellent work for self study

Inhalt
Gaussian Processes.- Gaussian Fields.- Gaussian Inequalities.- Orthogonal Expansions.- Excursion Probabilities.- Stationary Fields.- Geometry.- Integral Geometry.- Differential Geometry.- Piecewise Smooth Manifolds.- Critical Point Theory.- Volume of Tubes.- The Geometry of Random Fields.- Random Fields on Euclidean Spaces.- Random Fields on Manifolds.- Mean Intrinsic Volumes.- Excursion Probabilities for Smooth Fields.- Non-Gaussian Geometry.