Tropical Algebraic Geometry: 35 (Oberwolfach Seminars, 35) - Softcover

Itenberg, Ilia; Mikhalkin, Grigory; Shustin, Eugenii I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 303460047X ISBN 13: 9783034600477

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2009

Synopsis

Based on a seminar at the Mathematical Research Center in Oberwolfach in October 2004, this book contains polished notes of three introductory courses to tropical geometry, which give an introduction to the subject and contain some applications.

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From the Back Cover

Tropical geometry is algebraic geometry over the semifield of tropical numbers, i.e., the real numbers and negative infinity enhanced with the (max,+)-arithmetics. Geometrically, tropical varieties are much simpler than their classical counterparts. Yet they carry information about complex and real varieties.

These notes present an introduction to tropical geometry and contain some applications of this rapidly developing and attractive subject. It consists of three chapters which complete each other and give a possibility for non-specialists to make the first steps in the subject which is not yet well represented in the literature. The intended audience is graduate, post-graduate, and Ph.D. students as well as established researchers in mathematics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303460047X
• ISBN 13: 9783034600477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 113