'' Discrete & Computational Geometry'' is a

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. Founded in 1986 by Jacob E. Goodman and Richard M. Pollack, the journal publishes articles on

discrete geometry Discrete geometry and combinatorial geometry are branches of geometry that study combinatorial properties and constructive methods of discrete geometric objects. Most questions in discrete geometry involve finite or discrete sets of basic geom ...

and computational geometry.

Abstracting and indexing

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Notable articles

Two articles published in ''Discrete & Computational Geometry'', one by Gil Kalai in 1992 with a proof of a subexponential upper bound on the diameter of a polytope and another by Samuel Ferguson in 2006 on the

Kepler conjecture The Kepler conjecture, named after the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a mathematical theorem about sphere packing in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It states that no arrangement of equally sized spheres filling s ...

on optimal three-dimensional

sphere packing In geometry, a sphere packing is an arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space. The spheres considered are usually all of identical size, and the space is usually three-dimensional Euclidean space. However, sphere packing p ...

, earned their authors the

Fulkerson Prize The Fulkerson Prize for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Up to three awards of $1,500 each are presented at e ...

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