Algebraic surfaces: with appendices by S. S. Abhyankar, J. Lipman and D. Mumford.
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Algebraic surfaces: with appendices by S. S. Abhyankar, J. Lipman and D. Mumford.
zbMATH Open document ID: 0845.14021
published in: Classics in Mathematics
publication date: 1995-05-23T00:00:00Z
review text: The author's book ``Algebraic surfaces'' saw its first edition in 1935 (Zbl 0010.37103). By that time, the Italian school of algebraic geometers had brought the theory of algebraic surfaces, mainly with regard to its purely geometric aspects, to a remarkable stage of maturity. On the other hand, the topological and complex-analytic aspects had become a substantial part of the theory, essentially due to S. Lefschetz's contributions in the 1920s. However, for both directions, a solid base was still missing, and the new framework of abstract algebra was just at its beginning of being applied to algebraic geometry. The author's book was then a milestone in the history of the theory of algebraic surfaces, and even so in algebraic geometry as a whole. Namely, the author brought together the techniques of topology, analysis and classical algebraic geometry, in a coherent and rigorous way, thereby providing a solid foundation as well as a complete account of algebraic surface theory. Now as before, the original text of the book is an excellent source for an interested reader to study the methods of classical algebraic geometry, and to find the great old results, stated here without requiring the knowledge of the modern, abstract (sheaf- and cohomology-theoretic) machinery of contemporary algebraic geometry. -- The second edition of the book under review appeared in 1971 (Zbl 0219.14020) enriched by updating appendices -- one for each chapter --, which were written by \textit{S. S. Abhyankar}, \textit{J. Lipman}, and \textit{D. Mumford}. These ten appendices gave outlines of the developments of algebraic surface theory during the period from 1935 to 1970, connecting -- in this way -- Zariski's original classic text to the methods and results of abstract modern algebraic geometry. Today, there is a vast literature on algebraic surface theory from the modern point of view, for example the standard textbooks by \textit{A. Beauville} [cf. ``Surfaces algébriques complexes'', Asté…
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14Jxx
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14C30
zbMATH DE Number: 758274
zbMATH Keywords: algebraic surfaces
reviewed by: Werner Kleinert
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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