Introduction to Tropical Geometry: 161 (Graduate Studies in Mathematics) - Softcover

Diane Maclagan (author)|Bernd Sturmfels (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1470468565 ISBN 13: 9781470468569

Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 2015

Synopsis

Tropical geometry is a combinatorial shadow of algebraic geometry, offering new polyhedral tools to compute invariants of algebraic varieties. It is based on tropical algebra, where the sum of two numbers is their minimum and the product is their sum. This turns polynomials into piecewise-linear functions, and their zero sets into polyhedral complexes. These tropical varieties retain a surprising amount of information about their classical counterparts.

Tropical geometry is a young subject that has undergone a rapid development since the beginning of the 21st century. While establishing itself as an area in its own right, deep connections have been made to many branches of pure and applied mathematics.

This book offers a self-contained introduction to tropical geometry, suitable as a course text for beginning graduate students. Proofs are provided for the main results, such as the Fundamental Theorem and the Structure Theorem. Numerous examples and explicit computations illustrate the main concepts. Each of the six chapters concludes with problems that will help the readers to practice their tropical skills, and to gain access to the research literature.

About this title

About the Author

Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1470468565
• ISBN 13: 9781470468569
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 363