Computing the Continuous Discretely

Download or read book Computing the Continuous Discretely written by Matthias Beck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook illuminates the field of discrete mathematics with examples, theory, and applications of the discrete volume of a polytope. The authors have weaved a unifying thread through basic yet deep ideas in discrete geometry, combinatorics, and number theory. We encounter here a friendly invitation to the field of "counting integer points in polytopes", and its various connections to elementary finite Fourier analysis, generating functions, the Frobenius coin-exchange problem, solid angles, magic squares, Dedekind sums, computational geometry, and more. With 250 exercises and open problems, the reader feels like an active participant.