Computing The Continuous Discretely Integer-point Enumeration In Polyhedra - Matthias Beck

This Richly Illustrated Textbook Explores The Amazing Interaction Between Combinatorics, Geometry, Number Theory, And Analysis Which Arises In The Interplay Between Polyhedra And Lattices. Highly Accessible To Advanced Undergraduates, As Well As Beginning Graduate Students, This Second Edition Is Perfect For A Capstone Course, And Adds Two Chapters, Many Exercises, And Updated Open Problems. For Scientists, This Text Can Be Utilized As A Self-contained Tooling Device.the Topics Include A Friendly Invitation To Ehrharts Theory Of Counting Lattice Points In Polytopes, Finite Fourier Analysis, The Frobenius Coin-exchange Problem, Dedekind Sums, Solid Angles, Euler-maclaurin Summation For Polytopes, Computational Geometry, Magic Squares, Zonotopes, And More.with More Than 300 Exercises And Open Research Problems, The Reader Is An Active Participant, Carried Through Diverse But Tightly Woven Mathematical Fields That Are Inspired By An Innocently Elementary Question: What Are The Relationships Between The Continuous Volume Of A Polytope And Its Discrete Volume?reviews Of The First Edition: You Owe It To Yourself To Pick Up A Copy Of Computing The Continuous Discretely To Read About A Number Of Interesting Problems In Geometry, Number Theory, And Combinatorics.