Can I read Combinatorial Convexity and Algebraic Geometry (Graduate Texts in Mathematics (168)) on EtoBox?

Combinatorial Convexity and Algebraic Geometry (Graduate Texts in Mathematics (168)) by Günter Ewald (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Combinatorial Convexity and Algebraic Geometry (Graduate Texts in Mathematics (168)) about?

The aim of this book is to provide an introduction for students and nonspecialists to a fascinating relation between combinatorial geometry and algebraic geometry, as it has developed during the last two decades. This relation is known as the theory of toric varieties or sometimes as torus embeddings. Chapters I-IV provide a self-contained introduction to the theory of convex poly topes and polyhedral sets and can be used independently of any applications to algebraic geometry. Chapter V forms a link between the first and second part of the book. Though its material belongs to combinatorial convexity, its definitions and theorems are motivated by toric varieties. Often they simply translate algebraic geometric facts into combinatorial language. Chapters VI-VIII introduce toric va rieties in an elementary way, but one which may not, for specialists, be the most elegant. In considering toric varieties, many of the general notions of algebraic geometry occur and they can be dealt with in a concrete way. Therefore, Part 2 of the book may also serve as an introduction to algebraic geometry and preparation for farther reaching texts about this field. The prerequisites for both parts of t

Who reads Combinatorial Convexity and Algebraic Geometry (Graduate Texts in Mathematics (168))?

Author

Günter Ewald (auth.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag New York

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780387947556

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Stem