Real Algebraic Varieties (Springer Monographs in Mathematics) - Hardcover

Mangolte, Frédéric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030431037 ISBN 13: 9783030431037

Publisher: Springer, 2020

Synopsis

This book gives a systematic presentation of real algebraic varieties.

Real algebraic varieties are ubiquitous.They are the first objects encountered when learning of coordinates, then equations, but the systematic study of these objects, however elementary they may be, is formidable.

This book is intended for two kinds of audiences: it accompanies the reader, familiar with algebra and geometry at the masters level, in learning the basics of this rich theory, as much as it brings to the most advanced reader many fundamental results often missing from the available literature, the “folklore”. In particular, the introduction of topological methods of the theory to non-specialists is one of the original features of the book.

The first three chapters introduce the basis and classical methods of real and complex algebraic geometry. The last three chapters each focus on one more specific aspect of real algebraic varieties. A panorama of classical knowledgeis presented, as well as major developments of the last twenty years in the topology and geometry of varieties of dimension two and three, without forgetting curves, the central subject of Hilbert's famous sixteenth problem.

Various levels of exercises are given, and the solutions of many of them are provided at the end of each chapter.

About this title

About the Author

Frédéric Mangolte is Professor at Angers University in France. He is a specialist of real algebraic varieties, namely of their topology and their geometry. His research is focused on algebraic surfaces, algebraic threefolds and the Cremona group.

From the Back Cover

This book gives a systematic presentation of real algebraic varieties.

Real algebraic varieties are ubiquitous. They are the first objects encountered when learning of coordinates, then equations, but the systematic study of these objects, however elementary they may be, is formidable.

This book is intended for two kinds of audiences: it accompanies the reader, familiar with algebra and geometry at the masters level, in learning the basics of this rich theory, as much as it brings to the most advanced reader many fundamental results often missing from the available literature, the “folklore”. In particular, the introduction of topological methods of the theory to non-specialists is one of the original features of the book.

The first three chapters introduce the basis and classical methods of real and complex algebraic geometry. The last three chapters each focus on one more specific aspect of real algebraic varieties. A panorama of classical knowledge is presented, as well as major developments of the last twenty years in the topology and geometry of varieties of dimension two and three, without forgetting curves, the central subject of Hilbert's famous sixteenth problem.

Various levels of exercises are given, and the solutions of many of them are provided at the end of each chapter.

 

 

 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030431037
• ISBN 13: 9783030431037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 462