本手册旨在作为当前使用的基本数学和计算工具、方法和结果的切入点。它诞生于对包含核心原理和结果的单一来源的持续需求，初学者和专家（从刚刚开始进行研究的研究生到对应用感兴趣的代数几何学家，再到寻求制造一批自主代理的机器人专家）都可以理解。希望本书可以成为读者掌握GCS研究中的概念、方法和结果的有效工具。 本书的目的是为那些希望熟悉基础知识的人以及希望在广阔的领域中确定具体结果或方法的专家提供资源，旨在将读者从一般的代数几何方法带入更专业的包含组合分析和高效算法的语境之中。章节按所使用的主要方法进行分组，希望读者能够找到最适合他们的专业知识的材料。

Foreword
Preface
Contributors
1 Overview and Preliminaries
Meera Sitharam and Troy Baker
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Specifying a GCS
1.1.2 Fundamental GCS Questions
1.1.3 Tractability and Computational Complexity
1.2 Parts and Chapters of the Handbook
1.2.1 Part I：Geometric Reasoning Techniques
1.2.2 Part II：Distance Geometry，Configuration Space，and Real Algebraic Ge-ometry Techniques
1.2.3 Part III：Geometric Rigidity Techniques
1.2.4 Part IV：Combinatorial Rigidity Techniques
1.2.4.1 Inductive Constructions
1.2.4.2 Body Frameworks
1.2.4.3 Body-Cad，and Point-Line Frameworks
1.2.4.4 Symmetric and Periodic Frameworks and Frameworks under Polyhedral Norms
1.2.5 Missing Topics and Chapters
1.3 Terminology Reconciliation and Basic Concepts
1.3.1 Constrainedness
1.3.2 Rigidity of Frameworks
1.3.3 Generic Rigidity of Frameworks
1.3.4 Approximate Degree-of-Freedom and Sparsity
1.4 Alternative Pathway through the Book
I Geometric Reasoning，Factorization and Decomposition
2 Computer-Assisted Theorem Proving in Synthetic Geometry Julien Narboux，Predrag Jani?i?，and Jacques Fleuriot
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Automated Theorem Proving
2.2.1 Foundations
2.2.2 Nondegenerate Conditions
2.2.3 Purely Synthetic Methods
2.2.3.1 Early Systems
2.2.3.2 Deductive Database Method，GRAMY，and iGeoTutor
2.2.3.3 Logic-Based Approaches
2.2.4 Semisynthetic Methods
2.2.4.1 Area Method
2.2.4.2 Full-Angle Method
2.2.4.3 Vector-Based Method
2.2.4.4 Mass-Point Method
2.2.5 Prover s Implementations and Repositories of Theorems
2.3 Interactive Theorem Proving
2.3.1 Formalization of Foundations of Geometry
2.3.1.1 Hilbert's Geometry
2.3.1.2 Tarski’s Geometry
2.3.1.3 Axiom Systems and Continuity Properties
2.3.1.4 Other Axiom Systems and Geometries
2.3.1.5 Meta-Theory
2.3.2 Higher Level Results
2.3.3 Other Formalizations Related to Geometry
2.3.4 Verified Automated Reasoning
3 Coordinate-Free Theorem Proving in Incidence Geometry
Jürgen Richter-Gebert and Hongbo Li
3.1 Incidence Geometry
3.1.1 Incidence Geometry in the Plan e
3.1.2 Other Primitive Operations
3.1.3 Projective Invariance
3.2 Bracket Algebra：Straightening，Division，and Final Polynomials
3.2.1 Bracket Algebra and Straightening
3.2.2 Division
3.2.3 Final Polynomials
3.3 Cayley Expansion and Factorization
3.3.1 Cayley Expansion
3.3.2 Cayley Factorization
3.3.3 Cayley Expansion and Factorization in Geometric Theorem Proving
3.3.4 Rational Invariants and Antisymmetrization
3.4 Bracket Algebra for Euclidean Geometry
3.4.1 The Points I and J
3.4.2 Proving Euclidean Theorems
4 Special Positions of Frameworks and the Grassmann-Cayley Algebra
Jessica Sidman and William Traves
4.1 Introduction：the Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Frameworks
4.2 Projective Space
4.2.1 Motivation
4.2.2 Homogeneous Coordinates and Points at Infinity
4.2.3 Equations on Projective Space
4.2.4 Duality Between Lines and Points in IP2
4.2.5 Grassmannians and Plücker Coordinates
4.2.6 More About Lines in 3-space
4.3 The Bracket Algebra and Rings of Invariants
4.3.1 Group Actions and Invariant Polynomials
4.3.2 Relations Among the Brackets
4.4 The Grassmann-Cayley Algebra
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II Distance Geometry, Real Algebraic Geometry, and Configuration Spaces
III Geometric Rigidty
IV Combinatorial Rigidity