Gawrilow, Ewgenij; Joswig, Michael polymake: a framework for analyzing convex polytopes. (English) Zbl 0960.68182 Kalai, Gil (ed.) et al., Polytopes - combinatorics and computation. DMV-seminar Oberwolfach, Germany, November 1997. Basel: Birkhäuser. DMV Semin. 29, 43-73 (2000). Summary: polymake is a software tool designed for the algorithmic treatment of polytopes and polyhedra. We give an overview of the functionality as well as of the structure. This paper can be seen as a first approximation to a polymake handbook. The tutorial starts with the very basics and ends up with a few polymake applications to research problems. Then we present the main features of the system including the interfaces to other software products. polymake is free software; it is available on the Internet at http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/diskregeom/polymake/.For the entire collection see [Zbl 0944.00089]. Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 173 Documents MSC: 68W30 Symbolic computation and algebraic computation 68U05 Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) Software:Cinderella; polymake PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{E. Gawrilow} and \textit{M. Joswig}, DMV Semin. 29, 43--73 (2000; Zbl 0960.68182)