https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1408.0313/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26976760urn:hackerpapers:mention:1408.0313:26976760Thu, 29 Apr 2021 02:22:48 GMT<p>I haven’t read it but I would guess this is a good place to start: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.0313 My familiarity with tropical geometry is mostly conversational :) and entirely on the pure math side. The basic definitions use obviously lend themselves to optimization problems (and I think the field is in many ways an algebraic generalization of classical variational calculus) but I don’t really know of anything specific.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1408.0313/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>math.OC