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Harpedonaptae and abstract convexity

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This is an overview of the origin and basic ideas of abstract convexity.

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  1. Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, pr. Akad. Koptyuga 4, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

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The text was submitted by the author in English.

This article bases on a talk on abstract convexity and cone-vexing abstraction at the International Workshop “Idempotent and Tropical Mathematics and Problems of Mathematical Physics,” Moscow, August 25–30, 2007.

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Kutateladze, S.S. Harpedonaptae and abstract convexity. J. Appl. Ind. Math. 2, 215–221 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990478908020075

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