Tata lectures on theta. I: Introduction and motivation: Theta functions in one variable. Basic results on theta functions in several variables. With the assistance of C. Musili, M. Nori, E. Previato, and M. Stillman

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DOI10.1007/978-1-4899-2843-6zbMath0509.14049MaRDI QIDQ1838549

David Mumford

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Progress in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2843-6


14H10: Families, moduli of curves (algebraic)

14K30: Picard schemes, higher Jacobians

14K25: Theta functions and abelian varieties

14K10: Algebraic moduli of abelian varieties, classification

14-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry

11F11: Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight

33E05: Elliptic functions and integrals


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