A complete, self-contained introduction to a powerful and resurging mathematical discipline . Combinatorial Geometry presents and explains with complete proofs some of the most important results and m
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Abrams' Master of Art series, instituted in the 1960s, chose prominent art historians to write a short text and commentary on well-known artists. These classic texts are reproduced in 9x12 paperback e
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An impressive collection of original research papers in discrete and computational geometry, contributed by many leading researchers in these fields, as a tribute to Jacob E. Goodman and Richard Polla
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