Álgebra tropical: uma abordagem introdutória

Abstract

Often mathematics is seen by high school students as a science restricted to memorizing formulas and concepts. Therefore limiting in its essence. The work seeks to reverse that view by submitting a new eld of study: Tropical Algebra. Relatively new area of mathematics that keeps the curious feature to handle the operations of addition and multiplication di erently from traditional, already presents interesting practical results. Tropical algebra will be presented in a didactic way, comparing it with the traditional algebra, showing the consequences of tropical operations in the study of polynomials, matrices and geometry, and presenting some practical applications.