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Geometric Galois Actions: Volume 1: Around Grothendieck’s "Esquisse d’un Programme"

By Leila Schneps , Pierre Lochak (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521596424, 9780521596428
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17749162 bytes)
Series
London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 242
Edition
1
Pages
304\302
Time added
2018-03-11 17:09:29
Algebraic Geometry;Mathematics

Description

The first of two volumes on anabelian algebraic geometry, this book contains the famous manuscript "Esquisse d'un Programme" (Sketch of a Program) by Alexander Grothendieck. This work, written fourteen years after his retirement from public life in mathematics, includes the closely related letter to Gerd Faltings, published for the first time in this volume. Together these documents describe a powerful program of future mathematics, unifying aspects of geometry and arithmetic via the central point of moduli spaces of curves. The book is written in an artistic and informal style. It contains several articles on subjects directly related to the ideas explored in the manuscripts, including surveys of mathematics due to Grothendieck, explanations of points raised in the Esquisse, and surveys on progress in the domains described there.

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