History Algebraic Geometry / Edition 1

by Jean Dieudonné

Overview

This book contains several fundamental ideas that are revived time after time in different guises, providing a better understanding of algebraic geometric phenomena. It shows how the field is enriched with loans from analysis and topology and from commutative algebra and homological algebra.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412993718
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/30/1985
Series:	Wadsworth Mathematics
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dieudonne, Suzanne C.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The First Epoch—Prehistory (ca. 400 B.C.-1630 A.D.) 3. The Second Epoch—Exploration (1630-1795) 4. The Third Epoch—The golden age of projective geometry (1795-1850) 5. The Fourth Epoch—Riemann and birational geometry (1850-1866) 6. The Fifth Epoch—Development and chaos (1866-1920) 7. The Sixth Epoch—New structures in algebraic geometry (1920-1950) 8. The Seventh Epoch—Sheaves and schemes (1950- ) 9. Recent Results and Open Problems