Convex polytope

For the book, see Convex Polytopes.

A convex polytope is a special case of a polytope, having the additional property that it is also a convex set contained in the -dimensional Euclidean space . Convex polytopes play an important role both in various branches of mathematics and in applied areas, most notably in linear programming.

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