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Diane Maclagan, Bernd Sturmfels: “Introduction to Tropical Geometry”

Graduate Studies in Mathematics, vol. 161, AMS, 2015, 363 pp.

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Joswig, M. Diane Maclagan, Bernd Sturmfels: “Introduction to Tropical Geometry”. Jahresber. Dtsch. Math. Ver. 118, 233–237 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1365/s13291-016-0133-6

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