ENGLISH

Lectures on Resolution of Singularities (AM-166)

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781400827800
DOI
10.1515/9781400827800
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1284503 bytes)
Series
Annals of Mathematics Studies; 166
Edition
Course Book
Pages
208\214
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-24 00:37:39

Description

Resolution of singularities is a powerful and frequently used tool in algebraic geometry. In this book, János Kollár provides a comprehensive treatment of the characteristic 0 case. He describes more than a dozen proofs for curves, many based on the original papers of Newton, Riemann, and Noether. Kollár goes back to the original sources and presents them in a modern context. He addresses three methods for surfaces, and gives a self-contained and entirely elementary proof of a strong and functorial resolution in all dimensions. Based on a series of lectures at Princeton University and written in an informal yet lucid style, this book is aimed at readers who are interested in both the historical roots of the modern methods and in a simple and transparent proof of this important theorem.

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