Mostly surfaces
By: Richard Evan Schwartz
Series: Student mathematical library -- v. 60
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Providence, R.I
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780821853689
Subjects: Algebraic geometry -- Computational aspects in algebraic geometry -- Surfaces, hypersurfaces; Algebraic Surfaces; Functions of a complex variable -- Riemann surfaces -- Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization; Several complex variables and analytic spaces -- Compact analytic spaces -- Compact surfaces; Dynamical systems and ergodic theory -- Low-dimensional dynamical systems -- Homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces; Several complex variables and analytic spaces -- Complex manifolds -- Hyperbolic and Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds; Hypersurfaces; Riemann surfaces; Differential geometry -- Classical differential geometry -- Surfaces in Euclidean space; Geometry -- Real and complex geometry -- Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces
Description: The goal of the book is to present a tapestry of ideas from various areas of mathematics in a clear and rigorous yet informal and friendly way. Prerequisites include undergraduate courses in real analysis and in linear algebra, and some knowledge of complex analysis. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.