Tata Lectures on Theta I

• Main Author: Mumford, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhäuser Boston, 2007.
• Edition: 2.
• Series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebraic geometry.; Functional analysis.; Functions of complex variables.; Special functions.; History.; Number theory.; Special Functions.; Functions of a Complex Variable.; Functional Analysis.; Algebraic Geometry.; Number Theory.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

The first of a series of three volumes surveying the theory of theta functions and its significance in the fields of representation theory and algebraic geometry, this volume deals with the basic theory of theta functions in one and several variables, and some of its number theoretic applications. R...