TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Karen E.
AU  - Kahanpää,Lauri
AU  - Kekäläinen,Pekka
AU  - Traves,William
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry
T2  - Universitext,
SN  - 9781475744972
AV  - QA564-609 
U1  - 516.35 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Geometry, algebraic
KW  - Algebraic Geometry
N1  - 1 Affine Algebraic Varieties -- 2 Algebraic Foundations -- 3 Projective Varieties -- 4 Quasi-Projective Varieties -- 5 Classical Constructions -- 6 Smoothness -- 7 Birational Geometry -- 8 Maps to Projective Space -- A Sheaves and Abstract Algebraic Varieties -- A.1 Sheaves -- A.2 Abstract Algebraic Varieties -- References; License restrictions may limit access
N2  - The aim of this book is to describe the underlying principles of algebraic geometry, some of its important developments in the twentieth century, and some of the problems that occupy its practitioners today. It is intended for the working or the aspiring mathematician who is unfamiliar with algebraic geometry but wishes to gain an appreciation of its foundations and its goals with a minimum of prerequisites. Few algebraic prerequisites are presumed beyond a basic course in linear algebra
UR  - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio11311089
ER  -