Algebraic curves and Riemann surfaces
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Algebraic curves and Riemann surfaces
（Graduate studies in mathematics, v. 5）
American Mathematical Society, c1995
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Bibliography: p. 371-376
Includes indexes of notation and terminology
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Description
In this book, Miranda takes the approach that algebraic curves are best encountered for the first time over the complex numbers, where the reader's classical intuition about surfaces, integration, and other concepts can be brought into play. Therefore, many examples of algebraic curves are presented in the first chapters. In this way, the book begins as a primer on Riemann surfaces, with complex charts and meromorphic functions taking center stage.But the main examples come from projective curves, and slowly but surely the text moves toward the algebraic category. Proofs of the Riemann-Roch and Serre Duality Theorems are presented in an algebraic manner, via an adaptation of the adelic proof, expressed completely in terms of solving a Mittag-Leffler problem. Sheaves and cohomology are introduced as a unifying device in the latter chapters, so that their utility and naturalness are immediately obvious. Requiring a background of a one semester of complex variable theory and a year of abstract algebra, this is an excellent graduate textbook for a second-semester course in complex variables or a year-long course in algebraic geometry.
Table of Contents
Riemann surfaces: Basic definitions Functions and maps More examples of Riemann surfaces Integration on Riemann surfaces Divisors and meromorphic functions Algebraic curves and the Riemann-Roch theorem Applications of Riemann-Roch Abel's theorem Sheaves and Cech cohomology Algebraic sheaves Invertible sheaves, line bundles, and $\check H^1$ References Index of notation Index of terminology.
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