Nonlinear algebra provides modern mathematical tools to address challenges arising in the sciences and engineering. It is useful everywhere, where polynomials appear: in particular, data and computational sciences, statistics, physics, optimization. The book offers an invitation to this broad and fast-developing area. It is not an extensive encyclopedia of known results, but rather a first introduction to the subject, allowing the reader to enter into more advanced topics. It was designed as the next step after linear algebra and well before abstract algebraic geometry. The book presents both classical topics--like the Nullstellensatz and primary decomposition--and more modern ones--like tropical geometry and semidefinite programming. The focus lies on interactions and applications. Each of the thirteen chapters introduces fundamental concepts. The book may be used for a one-semester course, and the over 200 exercises will help the readers to deepen their understanding of the subject.

About the Author
Mateusz Michalek, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, and University of Konstanz, Germany.

Bernd Sturmfels, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.


Book Information
ISBN 9781470465513
Author Mateusz Michalek
Format Paperback
Page Count 226
Imprint American Mathematical Society
Publisher American Mathematical Society
Weight(grams) 428g