Snowbird Lectures in Algebraic Geometry: Proceedings.(by Ravi Vakil)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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0821837192

Snowbird lectures in algebraic geometry; proceedings.

AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Algebraic Geometry (2004: Snowbird, UT) Ed. by Ravi Vakil.

Amer. Mathematical Society

2005

187 pages

$59.00

Paperback

Contemporary mathematics; 388

QA564

Aimed at graduate students and recent PhDs, this proceedings volume surveys current devel...

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