Theory of Algebraic Surfaces (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789811573798)

This is an English translation of the book in Japanese, published as the volume 20 in the series of Seminar Notes from The University of Tokyo that grew out of a course of lectures by Professor Kunihiko Kodaira in 1967. It serves as an almost self-contained introduction to the theory of complex algebraic surfaces, including concise proofs of Gorenstein's theorem for curves on a surface and Noether's formula for the arithmetic genus. It also discusses the behavior of the pluri-canonical maps of surfaces of general type as a practical application of the general theory. The book is aimed at graduate students and also at anyone interested in algebraic surfaces, and readers are expected to have only a basic knowledge of complex manifolds as a prerequisite.

Author: Kunihiko Kodaira
ISBN-10: 9811573794
ISBN-13: 9789811573798
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2020
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.19d