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Lectures on Polytopes (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
Lectures on Polytopes - Graduate Texts in Mathematics Author:Gunter M. Ziegler Based on a graduate course given at the Technische Universitat, Berlin, these lectures present material on the modern theory of convex polytopes. The presentation features illustrations and provides complete proofs for most theorems. The material requires only linear algebra as a prerequisite, but takes the reader quickly from the basics to topi... more »cs of recent research, including a number of unanswered questions. The lectures: introduce the basic facts about polytopes, with an emphasis on the methods that yield the results (Fourier-Motzkin elimination, Schlegel diagrams, shellability, Gale transforms, and oriented matroids); discuss important examples and elegant constructions (cyclic and neighborly polytopes, zonotopes, Minkowski sums, permutahedra and associhedra, fiber polytopes, and the Lawrence construction); and show the excitement of current work in the field (Kalai's new diameter bounds, construction of non-rational polytopes, the Bohne-Dress tiling theorem, the upper-bound theorem).« less