%0 Journal Article %T Davis' Convexity Theorem and Extremal Ellipsoids %A Matthias J. Weber %A Hans-Peter Schr£¿cker %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X We give a variety of uniqueness results for minimal ellipsoids circumscribing and maximal ellipsoids inscribed into a convex body. Uniqueness follows from a convexity or concavity criterion on the function used to measure the size of the ellipsoid. Simple examples with non-unique minimal or maximal ellipsoids conclude this article. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1158v2