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Condition
VERY GOOD to LIKE NEW: This book appears to have never been read. The cover has a few slight flaws, such as a slightly bent corner. The pages are free from writing.
Product Details
From the Foreword: “To conform with the spirit of this collection, knowledge of mathematical notions beyond the first cycle at the university is not assumed from the start; the new concepts, introduced in algebraic geometry up to 1940, which are above this level, have been developed succinctly as the text progresses.”
Chapters
- Introduction
- The First Epoch – Prehistory (ca. 400 B.C. – 1630 A.D.)
- The Second Epoch – Exploration (1630-1795)
- The Third Epoch – The golden age of projective geometry (1795-1850)
- The Fourth Epoch – Riemann and birational geometry (1850-1866)
- The Fifth Epoch – Development and chaos (1866-1920)
- The Sixth Epoch – New structures in algebraic geometry (1920-1950)
- The Seventh Epoch – Sheaves and schemes (1950- )
- Recent Results and Open Problems