History of Algebraic Geometry: An Outline of the History and Development of Algebraic Geometry (Hardback)

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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.

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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

1. Introduction
2. The First Epoch - Prehistory (ca. 400 B.C. - 1630 A.D.)
3. The Second Epoch - Exploration (1630-1795)
4. The Third Epoch - The golden age of projective geometry (1795-1850)
5. The Fourth Epoch - Riemann and birational geometry (1850-1866)
6. The Fifth Epoch - Development and chaos (1866-1920)
7. The Sixth Epoch - New structures in algebraic geometry (1920-1950)
8. The Seventh Epoch - Sheaves and schemes (1950- )
9. Recent Results and Open Problems