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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 516
EAN num: 9780471050599
ISBN number: 0471050598
Label: Wiley-Interscience
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 832
Printing Date: August 02, 1994
Publishing house: Wiley-Interscience
Sale Popularity Level: 713313
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A comprehensive, self-contained treatment presenting general results of the theory. Establishes a geometric intuition and a working facility with specific geometric practices. Emphasizes applications through the study of interesting examples and the development of computational tools. Coverage ranges from analytic to geometric. Treats basic techniques and results of complex manifold theory, focusing on results applicable to projective varieties, and includes discusion of the theory of Riemann surfaces and algebraic curves, algebraic surfaces and the quadric line complex as well as special topics in complex manifolds.
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I agree with most earlier commentators that this is a very nice introduction to the subject. That said, depending on your background, you may find that cover to cover may not be the most efficient way of reading this book. Also it differs from 'modern' treatments of the subject. All in all, it's an indispensible reference for most beginners and 'advanced beginners' if not more readers.
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If you are a graduate student in mathematics or related fields and you are interested in learning algebraic geometry in the Griffiths-Harris way, then I suggest before buying this book to have a good background in the following:
1. Complex Analysis
2. Differential Geometry and calculus on manifolds
3. Homology-Cohomology Theory
4. Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry
Do not expect chapter 0, "Foundational Material", to be the place where you are supposed to build your "foundation". You can try the books of Michael Spivak, David A. Cox, Fangyang Zheng, among other books for foundational material but not chapter 0.
However, if you have most of the above-mentioned foundational material, then this book is good in presenting complex manifolds for example in chapter 0 section 2 and also in presenting (complex) holomorphic vector bundles, as well as many other things.
So, in summary, I would say a good book but not for students trying to learn the basics in algebraic geometry.
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The book is beautifully written and easy to read, with emphasis on geometric picture instead of abstract nonsense. By far the best introduction to algebraic geometry for string theorists.
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This is an amazing book with an amazing subject (complex algebraic geometry). Every section presents something interesting and wonderful. I've only read chapters 0 (Complex manifolds, Hodge theory), 1 (Divisors & line bundles, vanishing theorems, embeddings), and 2 (Riemann surfaces). I had had a bad experience with alg geom before this book. Required reading for mathematicians in complex manifolds, algebraic geometry, or string theorists. There are some very trivial typos scattered, but nothing problematic in the least (like capital lambda instead of a big wedge, or indices). If you read the book carefully you will get a lot out of it.
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This book is fabulous - it is an indispensable reference for complex algebraic geometry. It is very clearly written and ideas are always motivated by examples and problems. Moreover, if you want to learn modern algebraic geometry, it's imperative to learn the classical case (over the complexes - which in practice is easier to work in) in order to understand the generalisations a la Grothendieck.
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