Curves and their Jacobians
By: David Mumford.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Curves, Algebraic; Jacobians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Expanded version of 4 Ziwet lectures given in 1974 at the University of Michigan.
Table of contents: title: Lecture 1, What is a curve and how explicitly can we describe them?; title: Lecture 2, The moduli space of curves: definition, coordinatization, and some properties.; title: Lecture 3, How Jacobians and theta functions arise.; title: Lecture 4, The Torelli theorem and the Schottky problem.