Circle packings were proposed as a means for discrete approximation of conformal mappings by William Thurston in 1985, based on his reinterpretation of a result of E. M. Andreev. However, they also ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 146-173 (28 pages) This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) ...