This paper is a very brief introduction to idempotent mathematics and related topics. It appears as an introductory paper in the volume Idempotent Mathematics and Mathematical Physics (G. L. Litvinov and V. P. Maslov, eds; AMS Contemporary Mathematics Proceedings Series, 2005) [73]. This paper is a very brief introduction, without exact theorems and proofs, to the Maslov dequantization and idem...

In this paper we establish a characterization of abelian compact Hausdorff semigroups with unique idempotent and ideal retraction property. We also introduce a function algebra on a semitopological semigroup whose associated semigroup compactification is universal withrespect to these properties.

We study idempotent analogs of topological tensor products in the sense of A. Grothendieck. The basic concepts and results are simulated on the algebraic level. This is one of a series of papers on idempotent functional analysis.

In this paper we characterize those hemirings for which each k-ideal is idempotent. We also characterize those hemirings for which each fuzzy k-ideal is idempotent. The space of prime k-ideals (fuzzy k-prime k-ideals) is topologized.

The concept of idempotent elements plays an important role in semigroup theory and semiring theory. In this paper we characterize idempotent pre-generalized hypersubstitutions of type τ = (2, 2).

A unifying approach to software and hardware design generated by ideas of Idempotent Mathematics is discussed. The so-called idempotent correspondence principle for algorithms, programs and hardware units is described. A software project based on this approach is presented.