Michael Joswig

The goal of this book is to explain, at the graduate student level, connections between tropical geometry and optimization. Building bridges between these two subject areas is fruitful in two ways. Through tropical geometry optimization algorithms become applicable to questions in algebraic geometry. Conversely, looking at topics in optimization through the tropical geometry lens adds an additional layer of structure. The author covers contemporary research topics that are relevant for applications such as phylogenetics, neural networks, combinatorial auctions, game theory, and computational complexity. This self-contained book grew out of several courses given at Technische Universitat Berlin and elsewhere, and the main prerequisite for the reader is a basic knowledge in polytope theory. It contains a good number of exercises, many examples, beautiful figures, as well as explicit tools for computations using $\texttt{polymake}$.

Polyhedral and Algebraic Methods in Computational Geometry provides a thorough introduction into algorithmic geometry and its applications. It presents its primary topics from the viewpoints of discrete, convex and elementary algebraic geometry. The first part of the book studies classical problems and techniques that refer to polyhedral structures. The authors include a study on algorithms for computing convex hulls as well as the construction of Voronoi diagrams and Delone triangulations. The second part of the book develops the primary concepts of (non-linear) computational algebraic geometry. Here, the book looks at Gröbner bases and solving systems of polynomial equations. The theory is illustrated by applications in computer graphics, curve reconstruction and robotics. Throughout the book, interconnections between computational geometry and other disciplines (such as algebraic geometry, optimization and numerical mathematics) are established. Polyhedral and Algebraic Methods in Computational Geometry is directed towards advanced undergraduates in mathematics and computer science, as well as towards engineering students who are interested in the applications of computational geometry.

In dem Lehrbuch wird eine mathematisch orientierte Einführung in die algorithmische Geometrie gegeben. Im ersten Teil werden „klassische“ Probleme und Techniken behandelt, die sich auf polyedrische (= linear begrenzte) Objekte beziehen. Hierzu gehören beispielsweise Algorithmen zur Berechnung konvexer Hüllen und die Konstruktion von Voronoi-Diagrammen. Im zweiten Teil werden grundlegende Methoden der algorithmischen algebraischen Geometrie entwickelt und anhand von Anwendungen aus Computergrafik, Kurvenrekonstruktion und Robotik illustriert. Das Buch eignet sich für ein fortgeschrittenes Modul in den derzeit neu konzipierten Bachelor-Studiengängen in Mathematik und Informatik.