Aimed primarily at graduate students and beginning researchers, this book provides an introduction to algebraic geometry that is particularly suitable for those with no previous contact with the subject; it assumes only the standard background of undergraduate algebra. It is developed from a masters course given at the Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, and focuses on projective algebraic geometry over an algebraically closed base field. The book starts with easily-formulated problems with non-trivial solutions and uses these problems to introduce the fundamental tools of modern algebraic geometry: dimension; singularities; sheaves; varieties; and cohomology. The treatment uses as little commutative algebra as possible, the priority being to develop an understanding of the phenomena rather than a mastery of the technique. A range of exercises is provided for each topic discussed, and a selection of problems and exam papers are collected in an appendix to provide material for further study.

Introduces the fundamental tools of algebraic geometry at a level suitable for beginning researchers in the domain

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Prof. Dr. Daniel Perrin leitet das Institut für Angewandte Medienwissenschaft IAM der Zürcher Hochschule Winterthur. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Medienlinguistik und Textproduktionsforschung.

Zusammenfassung
The basic principles of this course were as follows: 1) Start with easily formulated problems with non-trivial solutions (such as B´ ezout's theorem on intersections of plane curves and the problem of rationalcurves).In19931994,thechapteronrationalcurveswasreplaced by the chapter on space curves.

Inhalt
Affine algebraic sets.- Projective algebraic sets.- Sheaves and varieties.- Dimension.- Tangent spaces and singular points.- Bézout's theorem.- Sheaf cohomology.- Arithmetic genus of curves and the weak Riemann-Roch theorem.- Rational maps, geometric genus and rational curves.- Liaison of space curves.