Introduction to Tropical Geometry (Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 161)

by Diane Maclagan and Bernd Sturmfels

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821851985
• ISBN13: 9780821851982
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Amer Mathematical Society
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.0" x 7.3"