num_pages: 388
description: The book is an introduction to the theory of convex polytopes and polyhedral sets to algebraic geometry and to the connections between these fields known as the theory of toric varieties. The first part of the book covers the theory of polytopes and provides large parts of the mathematical background of linear optimization and of the geometrical aspects in computer science. The second part introduces toric varieties in an elementary way.
language: English
title: Combinatorial Convexity and Algebraic Geometry
publisher: Springer