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代数几何方法.第2卷(英文)

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ThisVolumegivesanaccountoftheprincipalmethodsusedindevelopingatheoryofalgebraicvarietiesinspaceofndimensions.Applicationsofthesemethodsarealsogiventosomeofthemoreimportantvarietieswhichoccurinprojectivegeometry.Itwasorigina113ourintentiontoincludeanaccountofthearithmetictheoryofvarieties,andofthefoundationsofbirationalgeometry,butithasturnedouttobemoreconvenienttoreservethesetopicsforathirdvolume.Thetheoryofalgebraicvarietiesdevelopedinthisvolumeisthereforemainlyatheoryofvarietiesinprojectivespace.Inwritingthisvolumewehavebeenfacedwithtwoproblems:thedifficultquestionofwhatmustgoinandwhatshouldbeleftout,andtheproblemofthedegreeofgeneralitytobeaimedat.Asourobjectivehasbeentogiveanaccountofthemodernalgebraicmethodsavailabletogeometers,wehavenotsoughtgeneralityforitsownsake.Thereisstillenoughtobedoneintherealmofclassicalgeometrytogivethesemethodsallthescopethatcouldbedesired,andhaditbeenpossibletoconfineourselvestotheclassicalcaseofgeometryoverthefieldofcomplexnumbers,weshouldhavebeencontenttodoso.Butinordertoputtheclassicalmethodsonasoundbasis,usingalgebraicmethods,itisnecessarytoconsidergeometryovermoregeneralfieldsthanthefieldofcomplexnumbers.However,iftheultimateobjectistoprovideasoundalgebraicbasisforclassicalgeometry,itisonlynecessarytoconsiderfieldswithoutcharacteristic.Sincegeometryoveranyfieldwithoutcharacteristicconformstothegeneralpatternofgeometryoverthefieldofcomplexnumbers,wehavedevelopedthetheoryofalgebraicvarietiesoveranyfieldwithoutcharacteristic.Thusfieldswithfinitecharacteristicarenotusedinthisbook.

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