Basic Algebraic Geometry 2

Description

Shafarevich's Basic Algebraic Geometry has been a classic and universally used introduction to the subject since its first appearance over 40 years ago. As the translator writes in a prefatory note, ``For all [advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate] students, and for the many specialists in other branches of math who need a liberal education in algebraic geometry, Shafarevich’s book is a must.'' The second volume is in two parts: Book II is a gentle cultural introduction to scheme theory, with the first aim of putting abstract algebraic varieties on a firm foundation; a second aim is to introduce Hilbert schemes and moduli spaces, that serve as parameter spaces for other geometric constructions. Book III discusses complex manifolds and their relation with algebraic varieties, Kähler geometry and Hodge theory. The final section raises an important problem in uniformising higher dimensional varieties that has been widely studied as the ``Shafarevich conjecture''. The style of  Basic Algebraic Geometry 2 and its minimal prerequisites make it to a large extent independent of  Basic Algebraic Geometry 1, and accessible to beginning graduate students in mathematics and in theoretical physics.

First Sentence

In this chapter, we return to the starting point of all our study - the notion of algebraic variety - and attempt to look at it from a more general and invariant point of view.

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Other Editions

• Basic Algebraic Geometry 2: Schemes and Complex ManifoldsPaperbackSpringer1996-03-18
• Basic Algebraic Geometry 2PaperbackSpringer2011-09-08
• Basic Algebraic Geometry 2Springer London, Limited2012-01-01
• Basic Algebraic Geometry 2Springer London, Limited2013-01-01
• Basic Algebraic Geometry 2hardcoverSpringer2013-09-10
• Basic Algebraic Geometry 2Blurb2015-01-01