`polymake` has been developed since 1997 in the Discrete Geometry group at the Institute of Mathematics of Technische Universität Berlin. Since 2004 the development is shared with Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

The system offers access to a wide variety of algorithms and packages within a common framework. polymake is flexible and continuously expanding. The software supplies C++ and perl interfaces which make it highly adaptable to individual needs.

It is designed for free, non-profit (primarily academical) use; see the Legal Disclaimer below.

## Authors

- Ewgenij Gawrilow
- Michael Joswig

with major contributions by

- Thilo Rörig (application surface, object polytope/Framework, Java programming)
- Nikolaus Witte (application topaz),

further support by

- Sven Herrmann (object polytope/TightSpan)
- Volker Kaibel (linear programming)
- Marc E. Pfetsch (discrete Morse theory)
- Dagmar Timmreck (special surfaces)
- Axel Werner (flag vectors)
- Ronald Wotzlaw (Java programming)

and by the former team members

- Wolfram Schlickenrieder
- Alexander Schwartz
- Carsten Jackisch
- Gerald Stein
- Kerstin Fritzsche
- Andrea Tan (geb. Höppner)

## Support

From 1996 to 1998 the `polymake` project was funded by the German Israeli Foundation (GIF), grant I-0309-146.06/93 of Gil Kalai, Peter Kleinschmidt, and Günter M. Ziegler.

## How to Cite `polymake`

The most recent survey type reference to `polymake` is the paper Geometric reasoning with polymake.

The report on `polymake` from 1999 is still available, but a bit outdated by now. Additionally, there is a paper from the proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2001, Medford, MA.

Here is a BiBTeX entry with all the `polymake` references.

## Legal Disclaimer

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the version 2 of GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.