Lectures in geometric combinatorics
"This book presents a course in the geometry of convex polytopes in arbitrary dimension, suitable for an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student. The book starts with the basics of polytope theory. Schlegel and Gale diagrams are introduced as geometric tools to visualize polytopes in high dimension and to unearth bizarre phenomena in polytopes. The heart of the book is a treatment of the secondary polytope of a point configuration and its connections to the state polytope of the to…
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- Full title :Lectures in geometric combinatorics / Rekha R. Thomas.
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"This book presents a course in the geometry of convex polytopes in arbitrary dimension, suitable for an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student. The book starts with the basics of polytope theory. Schlegel and Gale diagrams are introduced as geometric tools to visualize polytopes in high dimension and to unearth bizarre phenomena in polytopes. The heart of the book is a treatment of the secondary polytope of a point configuration and its connections to the state polytope of the toric ideal defined by the configuration." "The book is self-contained and does not require any background beyond basic linear algebra. With numerous figures and exercises, it can be used as a textbook for courses on geometric, combinatorial, and computational aspects of the theory of polytopes."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):American mathematical Society, Institute for Advanced Study
- Place of Publication:Providence, RI
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 143 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0821841408, 9780821841402
- oclc:ocm65302363
- LC Classification:QA167
- Dewey Decimal:516/.13
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