After completing my PhD in mathematics in Berlin, I won a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to do postdoctoral research at San Francisco State University. This page collects my published creative work, in mathematics, software and beyond.
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Blog
On my personal blog I write about all kinds of things that interest me. The latest posts are shown on the right.
Mathematics
Here is a list of my formal mathematical articles. Note that in mathematics authors are always listed alphabetically.
Enumerating Colorings, Tensions and Flows in Cell Complexes (2012) with Matthias Beck, Logan Godkin and Jeremy Martin
Ehrhart f*-coefficients of polytopal complexes are non-negative integers (2012)
Felix Breuer, Ehrhart f*-coefficients of polytopal complexes are non-negative integers, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 19(4), P16, 2012.
Article at EJC, Preprint at arXiv
Hypergraph Coloring Complexes (2012) with Aaron Dall and Martina Kubitzke
Felix Breuer, Aaron Dall, Martina Kubitzke, Hypergraph Coloring Complexes, Discrete Mathematics 312(16), 2407-2420, 2012.
Article at ScienceDirect, Article at arXiv
Ehrhart theory, Modular flow reciprocity, and the Tutte polynomial (2012) with Raman Sanyal
Felix Breuer, Raman Sanyal, Ehrhart theory, Modular flow reciprocity, and the Tutte polynomial, Mathematische Zeitschrift 270(1), 1-18, 2012.
Article at SpringerLink, Preprint at arXiv
Bounds on the Coefficients of Tension and Flow Polynomials (2011) with Aaron Dall
Felix Breuer, Aaron Dall, Bounds on the Coefficients of Tension and Flow Polynomials, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 33(3), 465-482, 2011.
Article at SpringerLink, Preprint at arXiv
Viewing counting polynomials as Hilbert functions via Ehrhart theory (2010) with Aaron Dall
Felix Breuer, Aaron Dall. Viewing counting polynomials as Hilbert functions via Ehrhart theory. In: 22nd International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2010). DMTCS, 413-424, 2010.
Article at DMTCS, Poster at FPSAC, Preprint at arXiv
Staircases in Z2 (2010) with Frederik von Heymann
Felix Breuer, Frederik von Heymann, Staircases in Z2, INTEGERS 10, 807-847, 2010.
Article at Integers, Preprint at arXiv
Counting Hexagonal Patches and Independent Sets in Circle Graphs (2010) with Paul Bonsma
Paul Bonsma, Felix Breuer. Counting Hexagonal Patches and Independent Sets in Circle Graphs. In: LATIN 2010: Theoretical Informatics; Alejandro López-Ortiz, editor. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6034, 603-614, 2010.
Article at SpringerLink, Preprint at arXiv
Uneven Splitting of Ham Sandwiches (2010)
Felix Breuer, Uneven Splitting of Ham Sandwiches, Discrete and Computational Geometry 43(4), 876-892, 2010.
Article at SpringerLink, Preprint at arXiv
Ham Sandwiches, Staircases and Counting Polynomials (2009)
PhD Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 2009.
Thesis at FU Berlin, Thesis as PDF
Finding Fullerene Patches in Polynomial Time (2009) with Paul Bonsma
Paul Bonsma, Felix Breuer. Finding Fullerene Patches in Polynomial Time. In: Algorithms and Computation: 20th International Symposium, ISAAC 2009; Yingfei Dong, Ding-Zhu Du, Oscar Ibarra, editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 5878, 2009.
Article at SpringerLink, Preprint at arXiv
Gauss Codes and Thrackles (2006)
Diploma Thesis, FU Berlin, 2006.
Domino-Pflasterungen und Aztekensterne (2006) with Daria Schymura
Felix Breuer, Daria Schymura, Domino–Pflasterungen und Aztekensterne, Mathematische Semesterberichte 53(1), 81 - 99, 2006.
Article at SpringerLink, Preprint as PDF
Computer Science
Analytic Feature Selection for Support Vector Machines (2013) by Carly Stambaugh, Hui Yang and Felix Breuer
To be presented at 9th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining MLDM 2013.
Economics
Fund I/O
Fund I/O is both: exploratory research and a practical business model. The premise: crowdfunding and novel payment solutions can be used to put theoretical mechanisms for the private provision of public goods to real-world use.
There is no research paper on Fund I/O available yet, but I am keeping an open notebook on both my theoretical findings and practical considerations on my blog. If you want to read more, this is the post to start with. A full list of posts on Fund I/O can be found here.
Software
I am currently maintaining two open source software projects.
Qute
Qute is a text editor for Windows/Linux/Mac OS built around Markdown and MathJax. It offers TeX support and per-paragraph preview of markup (including typeset formulas)! It also an experiment in the visual aesthetics of text editing. There also is a version of Qute for Android, but that one offers fewer features.
InkBoard
InkBoard is an experimental pen-centric on-screen keyboard which I designed and implemented. It was written in Clojure and is available as open-source software. It is part of the larger InkCode project.
In the past I have been involved in several open source software projects, some of which are worth mentioning.
TeXmacs
TeXmacs is a scientific text editor. I helped implementing the converter to XML formats. I also built a prototype of a literate programming system for TeXmacs, which is still available here.
Heretix
Heretix was a source based GNU/Linux distribution, whose package manager was implemented as a Ruby script. I helped writing packages, maintaining the website and integrating a documentation system into the package manager itself. Heretix has been discontinued.
Teaching
Using Intuitive Geometry (2011)
In the fall term of 2011 I volunteered to teach Math 890 at San Francisco State University. The title of the course was "Using Intuitive Geometry - Using Geometric Intuition" and it dealt mainly with discrete geometry.
Community
Mathblogging.org
Along with Peter Krautzberger and Frederik von Heymann, I am one of the co-founders of Mathblogging.org. Mathblogging.org is a blog aggregator for the mathematical blogging community. By providing an index of math blogs, editorial content and technological infrastructure we help readers from any background discover the mathematical blogosphere.
Geometry, the Majority Vote and the Power of Agenda Control
After serious police violence against Occupy protesters in the Bay Area, I joined mathematicians at UC Berkeley in organizing a teach-in. We gave public lectures on mathematical topics with a connection to polictics. I spoke on "Geometry, the Majority Vote and the Power of Agenda Control".
Teach-in, Lecture notes, Video on IndyMedia
Video
Der kleine Gauß (2010) with Peter Krautzberger
As an experiment in communicating mathematics Peter and I created this video about the intuitive meaning of Gauss' sum formula.
Philosophy
Feldenkrais' Spontaneous Action and Laozi's Wuwei (2012)
Felix Breuer, Feldenkrais' Spontaneous Action and Laozi's Wuwei, Journal of Daoist Studies 5, 169 - 183, 2012.
Fiction
Now and then I have been writing fiction.
Eine inszenierte Revolte (2007)
17 Gen r (2000)
"17 Gen r" is a fragment of a novel. I brought this project pretty far (beyond 100,000 words), but in the end I did not finish it.
Ein Jahr (1999)
The short story "Ein Jahr" was published in an anthology in 1999.