The Hausdorff Distance Challenge

The Hausdorff Distance is a useful spatial function which can appear slightly mysterious. Partly this is due to the name. It honours Felix Hausdorff , one of the founding fathers of topology, and a polymath who was creative in music and literature as well as mathematics. Felix Hausdorff (1868-1942) But the name conveys nothing about why this function is useful, or how it is different to the more…