This page provides a number of useful publications concerning `polymake` for free download. The (much more long) citation list for `polymake` can be found here.

The publications are organized by reversed chronological order.

### A Short Introduction to `polymake`

This document provides a concise "hands on" introduction to `polymake`. It aims at getting you to work with the system on a computer rather than learning about it. This document is also equipped with a small collection of instructive and fun to do exercises.

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### Geometric Reasoning with polymake

The mathematical software system polymake provides a wide range of functions for convex polytopes, simplicial complexes, and other objects. A large part of this paper is dedicated to a tutorial which exemplifies the usage. Later sections include a survey of research results obtained with the help of polymake so far and a short description of the technical background.

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### `polymake`: an Approach to Modular Software Design in Computational Geometry

From the proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2001, Medford, MA

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### `polymake`: a framework for analyzing convex polytopes

A detailed report on the software system `polymake`. It gives an overview of the functionality as well as of the structure of `polymake`.

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