Spherical geometry other geometric concepts are defined as in plane geometry, but with straight lines replaced by great circles. Thus, in spherical geometry, angles are defined between great circles, resulting in a spherical trigonometry that differs from ordinary trigonometry in many respects; for example, the sum of the interior angles of a triangle exceeds 180 degrees. Spherical geometry is "not" elliptic geometry, but is rather a "subset" of elliptic geometry. For example, it shares with that geometry the property that a line has no parallels through a given point. Contrast this with Euclidean geometry, in which a line has one parallel through
Tropical geometry Tropical geometry Tropical geometry is a relatively new area in mathematics, which might loosely be described as a piece-wise linear or skeletonized version of algebraic geometry, using the tropical semiring instead of a field. Algebraic varieties can be mapped to a tropical counterpart and since this process still retain some geometric information about the original variety, it can be used to help prove classic results from algebraic geometry, such as Brill–Noether theorem using the tools of tropical geometry. The basic ideas of tropical analysis have been developed independently in the same notations by mathematicians working in various fields (see and