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Welcome to the polymake-wiki! Here you can find the growing collection of documentation related to the mathematical software package polymake, as well as extra material supplied by the user community.

polymake is a tool to study the combinatorics and the geometry of convex polytopes and polyhedra. It is also capable of dealing with simplicial complexes, matroids, polyhedral fans, graphs, tropical objects, …

New release 2.12: This "Easter Edition" was released on March 19, 2012.

The 3rd polymake workshop took place on March 22 and March 23, 2012, at TU Darmstadt! Please visit the workshop page for workshop materials!

• To get the current version please visit the Downloads page!
• Brief description of the new features of the current version 2.12.
• External Software: information about the external software used in polymake.
• Using polymake with other software

• Please visit the Documentation page!
• Ask your questions on polymake in our Forum.
• Try polymake online!

• 3rd polymake workshop, March 22 and March 23, 2012, TU Darmstadt.
• 2nd polymake workshop, September 13, 2011, UC Berkeley.
• 1st polymake workshop, March 31 and April 1, 2011, TU Darmstadt.
• convex-singular Workshop, November 25-27, 2010, Göttingen.
• Software Workshop Geometry and Combinatorics, February 2010, Kaiserslautern.

• News: keeps you informed about recent changes.
• Preview: new features for the next release
• Finally, the polymake wiki moved to its new home on the polymake server and also got equipped with a new and unique polymake theme . If you find any errors or have other problems or suggestions of any kind, please tell me.

• Current and former developers of polymake.

If you are using polymake we would like to ask you to cite our paper:

• Ewgenij Gawrilow and Michael Joswig. polymake: a framework for analyzing convex polytopes. Polytopes—combinatorics and computation (Oberwolfach, 1997), 43–73, DMV Sem., 29, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2000. MR1785292 (2001f:52033). BibTeX-entry.