EOM: 46 Oriented Matroids 2ed: Second Edition (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Series Number 46). This item is unavailable.EOM: 46 Oriented Matroids 2ed: Second Edition (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, Series Number 46)

This second edition of the first comprehensive, accessible account of the subject is intended for a diverse audience: graduate students who wish to learn the subject, researchers in the various fields of application who want to concentrate on certain theoretical aspects, and specialists who need a thorough reference work. For the second edition, the authors have greatly expanded the bibliography to ensure that it is comprehensive and up-to-date, and have also added an appendix surveying research since the first edition. A list of exercises and open problems ends each chapter.

This is the second edition of the first comprehensive, accessible account of oriented matroids, which have applications to areas as diverse as geometry, combinatorics, operations research, computer science and theoretical chemistry. It is intended for a diverse audience: graduate students, researchers from other disciplines and specialists. A list of exercises and open problems ends each chapter. For the second edition, the authors have expanded the bibliography greatly to ensure that it remains comprehensive and up-to-date, and they have also added an appendix surveying research since the work was first published.