Timeline for Is there a well-established terminology for polyhedra/polytopes?
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| Sep 6, 2017 at 19:09 | comment | added | Fred Rohrer | Bourbaki's definition of "polyhedron" (and of "locally polyhedral convex set") can be found in EVT.II.7 Exercice 24. | |
| Aug 8, 2017 at 5:13 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | @MoritzFirsching The plan is to collect enough diverse input for deciding on my own terminology use | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 12:22 | comment | added | Moritz Firsching | What do you expect as an answer? Recent mentions of polyhedron/polytopes with different meanings? Or just a simple "no"? | |
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| Feb 9, 2017 at 16:38 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @Qfwfq: I stand corrected: "polytope" is usually understood to be convex, especially more recently than 1967, when Grünbaum's book was published. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 16:07 | comment | added | Qfwfq | @Joseph O'Rourke: if a polytope were always convex this book would have a different title: google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://t1.gstatic.com/… | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 12:14 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | It is a shame there is not an International Standards Organization that attempts to normalize mathematical terms :-). In its absence, I think you are correct that the terminology is not standardized. In many contexts, a "polyhedron" is (possibly) nonconvex unless preceded by "convex," whereas "polytope" is always convex. | |
| Feb 9, 2017 at 10:23 | history | edited | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 9, 2017 at 10:13 | history | asked | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | CC BY-SA 3.0 |