Timeline for What's tropical about tropical algebra?
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| Jun 24, 2021 at 15:03 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | Igor, would you like something you invented be called Russian? :P | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 13:29 | comment | added | Anatoly Kochubei | A detailed history of the subject is given in: arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0507/0507014v1.pdf According to this survey, the first example of the kind was given by S.C. Kleene (1956), while a systematic treatment of idempotent linear algebra and related subjects was initiated by V.P. Maslov in 1980s. However his approach was analytic, not geometrical, thus the tropical geometry was rediscovered a decade later. | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:57 | vote | accept | Suvrit | ||
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| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:37 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | Given the name of the guy, why is it not called ``Balaton Geometry''? | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:34 | comment | added | Suvrit | Grazie! I should have read the article on "tropical geometry"; but it seems that max-plus had been around even before Imre? | |
| Sep 23, 2011 at 8:28 | history | answered | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 3.0 |