2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/107534Tropical algebraic geometry is an active new field of mathematics that establishes and studies some very general principles to translate algebro-geometric problems into purely combinatorial ones. This expository paper gives an introduction to these new techniques with a special emphasis on the recent applications to problems in enumerative geometry.24 pages, expository paper to appear in the Jahresbericht der DMVAlgebraic Geometrytext