An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry by Karen E. Smith, Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen, William Traves.

The aim of this book is to describe the underlying principles of algebraic geometry, some of its important developments in the twentieth century, and some of the problems that occupy its practitioners today. It is intended for the working or the aspiring mathematician who is unfamiliar with algebrai...

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Main Authors: Smith, Karen E. (Author), Kahanpää, Lauri (Author), Kekäläinen, Pekka (Author), Traves, William (Author)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Edition:1st ed. 2000.
Series:Universitext,
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Affine Algebraic Varieties
  • 2 Algebraic Foundations
  • 3 Projective Varieties
  • 4 Quasi-Projective Varieties
  • 5 Classical Constructions
  • 6 Smoothness
  • 7 Birational Geometry
  • 8 Maps to Projective Space
  • A Sheaves and Abstract Algebraic Varieties
  • A.1 Sheaves
  • A.2 Abstract Algebraic Varieties
  • References.