Algebraic Geometry. I: Complex projective varieties.
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In the 20th century, algebraic geometry has undergone several revolutionary changes with respect to its conceptual foundations, technical framework, and intertwining with other branches of mathematics. Accordingly the way it is taught has gone through distinct phases. The theory of algebraic schemes, together with its full-blown machinery of sheaves and their cohomology, being for now the ultimate stage of this evolution process in algebraic geometry, had created -- around 1960 -- the urgent demand for new textbooks reflecting these developments and (henceforth) various facets of algebraic geometry. The famous volumes ``Éléments de géométrie algébrique as a series in Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. (1960-1967) by \textit{A. Grothendieck} and \textit{J. Dieudonné} were entirely written in the new language of schemes, without being linked up with the classical roots, and the so far existing textbooks just dealed with classical methods. It was \textit{David Mumford}, who at first started the project of writing a textbook on algebraic geometry in its new setting. His mimeographed Harvard notes ``Introduction to algebraic geometry: Preliminary version of the first three chapters (bound in red) were distributed in the mid 1960's, and they were intended as the first stage of a forthcoming, more inclusive textbook. For some years, these mimeographed notes represented the almost only, however utmost convenient and abundant source for non-experts to get acquainted with the basic new concepts and ideas of modern algebraic geometry. Their timeless utility, in this regard, becomes apparent from the fact that two reprints of them have appeared, since 1988, as a proper book under the title ``The red book of varieties and schemes [cf. Lect. Notes Math. 1358 (1988; Zbl 0658.14001)]. In the process of exending his Harvard notes to a comprehensive textbook, the author's teaching experiences led him to the didactic conclusion that it would be better to split the book into two volumes, thereby starting with complex projective varieties (in volume I), and proceeding with schemes and their cohomology (in volume II). -- In 1976, the author published the first volume under the title ``Algebraic geometry. I: Complex projective varieties (1976; Zbl 0356.14002; corrected second edition 1980; Zbl 0456.14001), where the corrections concerned the wiping out of some misprints, inconsistent notations, and other slight inaccuracies. The book under review is an unchanged reprint of this corrected second edition from 1980. Although several textbooks on modern algebraic geometry have been published in the meantime, Mumford's ``Volume I is, together with its predecessor ``The red book of varieties and schemes, now as before, one of the most excellent and profound primers of modern algebraic geometry. Both books are just true classics! As to the intended volume II of the book under review, the author planned to publish it in collaboration with \textit{D. Eisenbud} and \textit{J. Harris}. This would have been based on existing but unpublished notes of the author (partially revised by \textit{S. Lang}), but then the author and his co-authors came to the conclusion that such a second volume was not really what was needed anymore, because \textit{R. Hartshorne}'s famous book ``Algebraic geometry (1977; Zbl 0367.14001) already covered a good part of the material they had planned to include. Instead, D. Eisenbud and J. Harris published what they felt is needed more: a brief introduction to schemes [cf. \textit{D. Eisenbud} and \textit{J. Harris}, ``Schemes: The language of modern algebraic geometry (1992; Zbl 0745.14002)]. Their booklet may be regarded as a bridge between D. Mumford's thorough classic (under review) and the now existing several textbooks on ``scheme- theoretic algebraic geometry, including Hartshorne's book as well as Mumford's other classic, the ``Red book of varieties and schemes.
- Orthogonal complex structures on domains in R^4
- Generators of the ideal of an algebraic space curve
- Coefficient-parameter polynomial continuation
- Applications of the blowing-up construction and algebraic geometry to bifurcation problems
- The red book of varieties and schemes
- The red book of varieties and schemes. Includes the Michigan lectures (1974) on ``Curves and their Jacobians.
- Sur l'approximation algébrique en degré de transcendance un. (On algebraic approximation in transcendence degree one)
- On the intersections of polynomials and the Cayley-Bacharach theorem
- Finiteness results for multiplicatively dependent points on complex curves
- Some speed-ups and speed limits for real algebraic geometry
- Uniqueness of limit cycles for quadratic vector fields
- Bernstein type inequalities for restrictions of polynomials to complex submanifolds of \(\mathbb{C}^N\)
- On the bit complexity of polynomial system solving
- Temperedness of measures defined by polynomial equations over local fields
- Singularity, complexity, and quasi-integrability of rational mappings
- The permutoassociahedron, Mac Lane's coherence theorem and asymptotic zones for the KZ equation
- Homological geometry. I: Projective hypersurfaces
- Cyclic quotients of knot like groups
- Integral extensions and the \(a\)-invariant
- Uncomputably large integral points on algebraic plane curves?
- Forcing the truth of a weak form of Schanuel's conjecture
- Stationary points at infinity for analytic combinatorics
- Enumerative geometry, before and after string theory
- Complexity of solving parametric polynomial systems
- Stable representations of posets
- Complexity of model testing for dynamical systems with toric steady states
- Numeric vs. symbolic homotopy algorithms in polynomial system solving: a case study
- On the Hilbert property and the fundamental group of algebraic varieties
- Unmixing the mixed volume computation
- Sampling algebraic sets in local intrinsic coordinates
- A universal property of the Cayley-Chow space of algebraic cycles
- Computing generators of the ideal of a smooth affine algebraic variety
- Algebraic geometry and representation theory in the study of matrix multiplication complexity and other problems in theoretical computer science
- On the structure tensor of \(\mathfrak{sl}_n\)
- Geometric complexity theory. V: Efficient algorithms for Noether normalization
- Permanent versus determinant: not via saturations
- Dimension of character varieties for 3-manifolds
- Building a model category out of multiplier ideal sheaves
- Complexity of linear circuits and geometry
- Topological invariants of isolated complete intersection curve singularities
- The moduli space of cubic threefolds as a ball quotient
- Regeneration homotopies for solving systems of polynomials
- A geometric description of the sets of palindromic and alternating matrix pencils with bounded rank
- On geometric complexity theory: multiplicity obstructions are stronger than occurrence obstructions
- Differential fields and geodesic flows. I: Orthogonality to the constants for autonomous differential equations
- Fast computation of a rational point of a variety over a finite field
- On the characteristic polynomials of orbital varieties
- New classes of matrix decompositions
- Abelian varieties. With appendices by C. P. Ramanujam and Yuri Manin.
- Selected papers, Volume II. On algebraic geometry, including correspondence with Grothendieck. Edited by Ching-Li Chai, Amnon Neeman and Takahiro Shiota.
- The geometry of homogeneous polynomial dynamical systems
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 52497 (Why is no real title available?)
- Are there elimination algorithms for the permanent?
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 598493 (Why is no real title available?)
- Existence of solutions for a fractional derivative system of equations
- Approximation diophantienne et indépendance algébrique de logarithmes
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1150723 (Why is no real title available?)
- Limits of Geometries
- Families of Riemann surfaces, uniformization and arithmeticity
- Twistor transforms of quaternionic functions and orthogonal complex structures
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 790015 (Why is no real title available?)
- No occurrence obstructions in geometric complexity theory
- Degenerations of representations and thin triangles
- Algebraic geometry II
- The degree of Stiefel manifolds
- The Multivariate Schwartz--Zippel Lemma
- Rationality of the locus of singularities of the general Gough-Stewart platform
- An explicit description of the irreducible components of the set of matrix pencils with bounded normal rank
- A geometric model of an arbitrary differentially closed field of characteristic zero
- Log BPS numbers of log Calabi-Yau surfaces
- Monotonic invariants under blowups
- Algebraic hypersurfaces
- Border rank is not multiplicative under the tensor product
- Syzygies, degrees, and choices from a life in mathematics. Retiring Presidential Address
- Galois/Monodromy Groups for Decomposing Minimal Problems in 3D Reconstruction
- Unit interval orders and the dot action on the cohomology of regular semisimple Hessenberg varieties
- The \(C\)-polynomial of a knot
- Computational arithmetic geometry. I: Sentences nearly in the polynomial hierarchy
- Computing bases of complete intersection rings in Noether position
- On computing absolutely irreducible components of algebraic varieties with parameters
- Algorithm for Connectivity Queries on Real Algebraic Curves
- Witness sets of projections
- The scheme of characters in 𝑆𝐿₂
- Finiteness of stationary configurations of the planar four-vortex problem
- Extensions of regular mappings and the Łojasiewicz exponent at infinity
- Computing the equidimensional decomposition of an algebraic closed set by means of lifting fibers
- Models of abelian varieties over valued fields, using model theory
- Automorphisms and twisted forms of rings of invariants
- Higher dimensional Fourier quasicrystals from Lee-Yang varieties
- Building Grothendieck topoi out of ample divisors
- Algebraic degree of optimization over a variety with an application to P-norm distance degree
- Decompositions of powers of quadrics
- Classification of hyperbolic Dehn fillings. I
- Desingularizations of the moduli space of rank 2 bundles over a curve
- Point-curve incidences in the complex plane
- A Kronecker algorithm for locally closed sets over a perfect field
- Some remarks on fibrations in complex geometry
- Fibrations on the 6-sphere and clemens threefolds
- A Szemerédi-Trotter type theorem in R^4
- Autocovariance varieties of moving average random fields
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