A Course in Convexity

Aimed at graduate students and research mathematicians, this textbook uses a variety of pure and applied problems to demonstrate the unifying principles of convexity and its applications. A sampling of topics includes lattice points and polyhedra, the structure of the moment cone, and linear programming in an abstract setting. The text is based upon the author's lecture notes for graduate courses he has taught since 1996 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR