Strongly minimal sets and geometry

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This expository paper contains a clear and readable introduction to the model theory of strongly minimal sets. After recalling the basic definitions, facts and examples (in particular, the pregeometry structure of a strongly minimal set), the author surveys the main tools and more advanced topics on this matter (families of plane curves, pseudoplanes, group and field configurations, the Zilber Conjecture, Zariski geometries, and so on), and finally discusses how these ideas are used in the Hrushovski proof of the Mordell-Lang Conjecture for function fields of arbitrary characteristic. As already said, the paper is well written, tidy and reasonably self-contained. It provides an excellent and stimulating introduction to the subject. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00035].











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