Timeline for What's tropical about tropical algebra?
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| Sep 24, 2011 at 1:46 | comment | added | Allen Knutson | Warning: some Japanese authors use "tropicalization" to refer to lifting a max-plus formula to a rational function, which is what most Western authors call "detropicalization". I think the Japanese point of view makes better sense, in that a max-plus formula is like a zero Kelvin version, like Kashiwara's crystal basis. But it seems unlikely to be uprooted now. | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 11:58 | vote | accept | Suvrit | ||
| Sep 23, 2011 at 11:54 | answer | added | Gjergji Zaimi | timeline score: 21 | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:57 | vote | accept | Suvrit | ||
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| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:39 | comment | added | Fernando Muro | He was working at Sa\~o Paulo, I believe, and I think that this city is a little bit below the Capricorn tropic!! | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:33 | comment | added | Suvrit | I see! But surely max-plus was studied even before Imre, or not? | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:30 | comment | added | user2529 | tropical refers to Brazil. Imre Simon working in Brazil was a pioneer of the field. | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:28 | answer | added | Federico Poloni | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:22 | history | asked | Suvrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |