Overview
- Contains a wide range of open problems, novel results, and state-of-the-art surveys
- Presents a snapshot of a rapidly evolving area on the boundary of discrete geometry and optimization
- Reflects the broad and international participation at the Workshop on Discrete Geometry, Conference on Discrete Geometry and Optimization, and Workshop on Optimization
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Fields Institute Communications (FIC, volume 69)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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About this book
Optimization has long been a source of both inspiration and applications for geometers, and conversely, discrete and convex geometry have provided the foundations for many optimization techniques, leading to a rich interplay between these subjects. The purpose of the Workshop on Discrete Geometry, the Conference on Discrete Geometry and Optimization, and the Workshop on Optimization, held in September 2011 at the Fields Institute, Toronto, was to further stimulate the interaction between geometers and optimizers. This volume reflects the interplay between these areas.
The inspiring Fejes Tóth Lecture Series, delivered by Thomas Hales of the University of Pittsburgh, exemplified this approach. While these fields have recently witnessed a lot of activity and successes, many questions remain open. For example, Fields medalist Stephen Smale stated that the question of the existence of a strongly polynomial time algorithm for linear optimization is one of the most important unsolved problems at the beginning of the 21st century. The broad range of topics covered in this volume demonstrates the many recent and fruitful connections between different approaches, and features novel results and state-of-the-art surveys as well as open problems.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discrete Geometry and Optimization
Editors: Karoly Bezdek, Antoine Deza, Yinyu Ye
Series Title: Fields Institute Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00200-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00199-9Published: 19 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03312-9Published: 07 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00200-2Published: 09 July 2013
Series ISSN: 1069-5265
Series E-ISSN: 2194-1564
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 336
Topics: Convex and Discrete Geometry, Discrete Optimization, Operations Research, Management Science