Algebraic Functions and Projective Curves

• Main Author: Goldschmidt, David M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 215
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebraic geometry.; Number theory.; Algebraic Geometry.; Number Theory.

This book provides a self-contained exposition of the theory of algebraic curves without requiring any of the prerequisites of modern algebraic geometry. The self-contained treatment makes this important and mathematically central subject accessible to non-specialists. At the same time, specialists...

Table of Contents:

• Background
• Function Fields
• Finite Extensions
• Projective Curves
• Zeta Functions.