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Idempotent Analysis
In mathematical analysis, idempotent analysis is the study of idempotent semirings, such as the tropical semiring. The lack of an additive inverse in the semiring is compensated somewhat by the idempotent rule A \oplus A = A. References * {{mathanalysis-stub Idempotent analysis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematical Analysis
Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series (mathematics), series, and analytic functions. These theories are usually studied in the context of Real number, real and Complex number, complex numbers and Function (mathematics), functions. Analysis evolved from calculus, which involves the elementary concepts and techniques of analysis. Analysis may be distinguished from geometry; however, it can be applied to any Space (mathematics), space of mathematical objects that has a definition of nearness (a topological space) or specific distances between objects (a metric space). History Ancient Mathematical analysis formally developed in the 17th century during the Scientific Revolution, but many of its ideas can be traced back to earlier mathematicians. Early results in analysis were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idempotent Semiring
In abstract algebra, a semiring is an algebraic structure. Semirings are a generalization of rings, dropping the requirement that each element must have an additive inverse. At the same time, semirings are a generalization of bounded distributive lattices. The smallest semiring that is not a ring is the two-element Boolean algebra, for instance with logical disjunction \lor as addition. A motivating example that is neither a ring nor a lattice is the set of natural numbers \N (including zero) under ordinary addition and multiplication. Semirings are abundant because a suitable multiplication operation arises as the function composition of endomorphisms over any commutative monoid. Terminology Some authors define semirings without the requirement for there to be a 0 or 1. This makes the analogy between ring and on the one hand and and on the other hand work more smoothly. These authors often use rig for the concept defined here. This originated as a joke, suggesting that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Semiring
In idempotent analysis, the tropical semiring is a semiring of extended real numbers with the operations of minimum (or maximum) and addition replacing the usual ("classical") operations of addition and multiplication, respectively. The tropical semiring has various applications (see tropical analysis), and forms the basis of tropical geometry. The name ''tropical'' is a reference to the Hungarian-born computer scientist Imre Simon, so named because he lived and worked in Brazil. Definition The ' (or or ) is the semiring (\mathbb \cup \, \oplus, \otimes), with the operations: : x \oplus y = \min\, : x \otimes y = x + y. The operations \oplus and \otimes are referred to as ''tropical addition'' and ''tropical multiplication'' respectively. The identity element for \oplus is +\infty, and the identity element for \otimes is 0. Similarly, the ' (or or or ) is the semiring (\mathbb \cup \, \oplus, \otimes), with operations: : x \oplus y = \max\, : x \otimes y = x + y. The identi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |