“…Assouad's original motivation was to study embedding problems, a subject where the Assouad dimension is still playing a fundamental rôle, see [Ol, OR, R]. The concept has also found a home in other areas of mathematics, including the theory of quasi-conformal mappings [H, L, MT], and more recently it is gaining substantial attention in the literature on fractal geometry [K,M,O,Fr3,LLMX,FHOR,ORS]. It is also worth noting that, due to its intimate relationship with tangents, it has always been present, although behind the scenes, in the pioneering work of Furstenberg on micro-sets and the related ergodic theory which goes back to the 1960s, see [Fu].…”