From Geometry to Numerics: interdisciplinary aspects in mathematical and numerical relativity

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This article reviews some aspects in the current relationship between mathematical and numerical General Relativity.

• Focus is placed on the description of isolated systems, with a particular emphasis on recent developments in the study of black holes.
• Ideas concerning asymptotic flatness, the initial value problem, the constraint equations, evolution formalisms, geometric inequalities and quasi-local black hole horizons are discussed on the light of the interaction between numerical and mathematical relativists.