Table of Contents

• Tropical islands
• Building blocks
• Tropical varieties
• Tropical rain forest
• Tropical garden
• Toric connections
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.

Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Reviews

“This wonderful book will appeal to students and researchers of all stripes: it begins at an undergraduate level and ends with deep connections to toric varieties, compactifications, and degenerations. In between, the authors provide the first complete proofs in book form of many fundamental results in the subject. The pages are sprinkled with illuminating examples, applications, and exercises, and the writing is lucid and meticulous throughout. It is that rare kind of book which will be used equally as an introductory text by students and as a reference for experts”. - Matt Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Who should read the book? Everybody who wants to learn what tropical geometry can be about…The result is a straight path to tropical geometry via combinatorial commutative algebra and polyhedral combinatorics. In this way, the book by Maclagan and Sturmfels will become a standard reference in the field for years to come."
- M. Joswig, Jahresber Dtsch Math-Ver