Description: This book presents basic concepts from the emerging field of computational topology, now being used to solve problems in diverse fields.
Brief description: Afra J. Zomorodian is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. He is a former Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bio-X and the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, California and has been a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken. Using the material contained in this book, he has organized classes on computational topology at Stanford University, the MPI, and Dartmouth College.
Review Quotes: "In my knowledge, it is the first book covering these topics."
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