polymake is being developed since 1997 in the Discrete Geometry group at the Institute of Mathematics of Technische Universität Berlin.

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

Authors

• Ewgenij Gawrilow
  general design, template library, release management
• Michael Joswig
  general and application-specific design
• Thilo Schröder
  numerous contributions, esp. visualization
• Nikolaus Witte
  many contributions to the application TOPAZ

Former Team Members

• Carsten Jackisch
• Gerald Stein

Contributors

• Kerstin Fritzsche
• Andrea Höppner
• Volker Kaibel
• Marc E. Pfetsch
• Wolfram Schlickenrieder
• Alexander Schwartz

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

A more detailed report on polymake is available. Additionally, we refer to a paper from the proceedings of the 17th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2001, Medford, MA. Here is a BiBTeX entry with 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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.