Mariette Yvinec

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Mariette Yvinec is a French researcher in computational geometry at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Sophia Antipolis. She is one of the developers of CGAL, a software library of computational geometry algorithms. [1]

Yvinec is the co-author of two books in computational geometry:

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References

  1. Mariette Yvinec, INRIA, retrieved 2018-05-25
  2. Reviews of Algorithmic Geometry:
  3. Reviews of Geometric and Topological Inference: