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Computational Topology: An Introduction

Herbert Edelsbrunner Duke University, Durham, NC and Geomagic, Research Triangle Park, NC
John L. Harer Duke University, Durham, NC
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• Book Details

2010; 241 pp
MSC: Primary 00; 52; 55; 57; 68;

Combining concepts from topology and algorithms, this book delivers what its title promises: an introduction to the field of computational topology. Starting with motivating problems in both mathematics and computer science and building up from classic topics in geometric and algebraic topology, the third part of the text advances to persistent homology. This point of view is critically important in turning a mostly theoretical field of mathematics into one that is relevant to a multitude of disciplines in the sciences and engineering.

The main approach is the discovery of topology through algorithms. The book is ideal for teaching a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in computational topology, as it develops all the background of both the mathematical and algorithmic aspects of the subject from first principles. Thus the text could serve equally well in a course taught in a mathematics department or computer science department.

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in topology, algorithms, and applications to science and engineering.

• A. Computational geometric topology
• I. Graphs
• II. Surfaces
• III. Complexes
• B. Computational algebraic topology
• IV. Homology
• V. Duality
• VI. Morse functions
• C. Computational persistent topology
• VII. Persistence
• VIII. Stability
• IX. Applications

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• This book is a very welcome, untraditional, thorough and well-organized introduction to a young and quickly developing discipline on the crossroads between mathematics, computer science, and engineering.

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2010; 241 pp
MSC: Primary 00; 52; 55; 57; 68;

Combining concepts from topology and algorithms, this book delivers what its title promises: an introduction to the field of computational topology. Starting with motivating problems in both mathematics and computer science and building up from classic topics in geometric and algebraic topology, the third part of the text advances to persistent homology. This point of view is critically important in turning a mostly theoretical field of mathematics into one that is relevant to a multitude of disciplines in the sciences and engineering.

The main approach is the discovery of topology through algorithms. The book is ideal for teaching a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in computational topology, as it develops all the background of both the mathematical and algorithmic aspects of the subject from first principles. Thus the text could serve equally well in a course taught in a mathematics department or computer science department.

Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in topology, algorithms, and applications to science and engineering.

• A. Computational geometric topology
• I. Graphs
• II. Surfaces
• III. Complexes
• B. Computational algebraic topology
• IV. Homology
• V. Duality
• VI. Morse functions
• C. Computational persistent topology
• VII. Persistence
• VIII. Stability
• IX. Applications
• This book is a very welcome, untraditional, thorough and well-organized introduction to a young and quickly developing discipline on the crossroads between mathematics, computer science, and engineering.

Review Copy – for reviewers who would like to review an AMS book
Desk Copy – for instructors who have adopted an AMS textbook for a course
Examination Copy – for faculty considering an AMS textbook for a course
Permission – for use of book, eBook, or Journal content
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