Introduction to tropical algebraic geometry
arXiv:1207.1925
Abstract
This is an expository introduction to tropical algebraic geometry based on my lectures at the Workshop on Tropical Geometry and Integrable Systems in Glasgow, July 4-8, 2011, and at the ELGA 2011 school on Algebraic Geometry and Applications in Buenos Aires, August 1-5, 2011.
To appear in AMS Contemporary Mathematics Volume, "Tropical Geometry and Integrable Systems"