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capitalist countries, used this term repeatedly beginning from the mid 1980's. In numerous oral presentations (e.g. at the General Meetings of the USSR Academy of Sciences) and articles in the Soviet press, he warned that the opening of the curtain between the two groups of countries would inevitably lead to a situation similar to the one that arose in the 17th century when the ocean ceased to be boundary between Europe and the Americas, on the one hand, and Africa on the other. At that time cheap European and American goods were exchanged for expensive Africa ressourses  and the slave trade began. This unequal exchange could be described by the rules of the new arithmetic, which Maslov and his followers first called ``idempotent (tropical) analysis'' or ``Min; + algebra''. The term ``idempotent'' did not survive in the literature, while the term ``tropical'', being more expressive and pleasant to the ear, became more popular, although different schools gave it somewhat different meanings.
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It's an arbitrary convention whether one works with the min-plus or the max-plus algebra, but one needs to make a choice and stick with it. The article currently chooses to use the min convention. There doesn't seem to be any point in changing over to the max convention, but perhaps there should be a
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I'm removing a badly-spelled and -formatted paragraph that seems not to have much relevance to the actual history of the either tropical geometry itself or its name. Additionally, the sources don't appear to have anything to do with any of the claims actually made. Let me know or address it yourself
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The author of these seem to have been thinking about the min convention only, which becomes confusing since the rest of that section has put equal weight on the min and max conventions; while there is some wording further up to the effect that this article applies the min convention, it is very far
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The remarks in the header about the name of the subject read more like a commentary on the article rather than part of the article, especially the question about whether the name reflects the French view of Brazil and the loaded word "blames." Also, if there are going to be extensive remarks on the
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are …" (emphasis added). Are they talking about the same thing? Is, hypersurface, perhaps, too clumsy for conversation, so that "tropical surface" is just an informal way of saying "tropical hypersurface"? Or is there some distinct concept of "tropical surface"? If so, it's not referenced or
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Quite independently of the use of the term ``tropical'' by the Brazilian school concerning the new mathematics, V.P. Maslov, in connection with the situation that occurred in the USSR during the 1980's (the ``perestroika'' years) and the opening of the ``iron curtain'' between the communist and
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It seems that there is consensus to keep the two articles, and I would guess that everybody agrees that it would be good to have See-Also templates on each. Is that correct? Is there any objection to introducting such See-Also templates and removing the merge discussion notice?
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I've just started a new section on the history of the subject, although thus far it's just a couple of remarks about how the subject got its name (transplanted from the introduction). Both this section and the section on applications ought to be expanded.
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The article declares that it uses the "min" convention, but the only actual definition in fact uses "max" — and in the very next paragraph. Yes, there is a segue stating that the definition is in the "max" convention, but this still seems very strange.
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I wonder why it's that way, rather than replacing multiplication with min() and addition with itself. I was about to speculate that it has to do with identities and inverses, but there are no inverses under min()!
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The article uses the "min" convention, but the curve in the picture follows the "max" convention. This should be fixed. For example, if someone knows how to rotate the picture by 180 degrees, that would work.
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name (more than a single sentence), then I think those remarks belong somewhere in the body rather than in the header. Maybe it's time to create a short new section about the history of the subject.
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is, despite it immediately before being necessary to explain the algebraic structure that the valuation maps into – a reader needing that introduction would not know that a valuation maps
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People who look up one of these semi-rings may not be aware or in need of the other, or need the information that the other exists at all. I think it is helpful to have two articles
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The two algebras are isomorphic, not the same. There are certainly similarities between the two semirings but I don't think the choice of additive operation is entirely arbitrary.
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Feel free to provide a better one then. I happen to have Lothaire to hand and the article is currently woefully short of references.
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This article is about a topic in geometry, based on a construction in algebra. As far as I can see, this is already clearly stated.
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The figure at the top of the article has been rotated, so that it now agrees with the min-plus convention of the article.
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if there's anything worth saving; otherwise it seems better to me simply to excise it entirely. Here's the text removed:
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Then it proceeds to provide "two important characterizations of these objects". That numbered "1." indeed says "
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You know, this is probably the sort of article I should go and write up expandedly, in my copious free time...
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I don't have a canonical reference in mind, but indeed Lothaire is a very unusual one, for this concept.
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due to the definition of the semiring)", claiming that it is "not truly related to the subject"
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The set of points where a tropical polynomial F is non-differentiable is called its associated
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addition is replaced with minimization and multiplication is replaced with ordinary addition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Tropical_geometry&diff=prev&oldid=971396383
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The examples are also weird in that they presume the reader knows what a
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Removing a paragraph; let me know if there's anything worth saving here.
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from obvious that this should start to apply at this particular point.
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to infinity! Finally I don't see why one would suddenly want to use
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The section "Algebra background" currently ends with the examples:
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Some common valuated fields encountered in tropical geometry are:
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Some common valuated fields encountered in tropical geometry, as
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How does a tropical algebra differ from a max-plus algebra?
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as notation for the tropical zero. Suggested rewrite:
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