Book review of: D. Maclagan and B. Sturmfels, Introduction to tropical geometry

DOI10.1365/s13291-016-0133-6zbMath1348.00018OpenAlexW2336837208MaRDI QIDQ335011

Michael Joswig

Publication date: 2 November 2016

Published in: Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1365/s13291-016-0133-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Gröbner bases; other bases for ideals and modules (e.g., Janet and border bases) (13P10) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-01) External book reviews (00A17)

Uses Software

• polymake
• Gfan

Cites Work

• Intersection theory on the moduli space of curves and the matrix Airy function
• Computing tropical varieties
• Non-archimedean amoebas and tropical varieties
• Lectures on Polytopes
• Enumerative tropical algebraic geometry in ℝ²
• The tropical Grassmannian
• Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms
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