The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes Includes the Michigan Lectures (1974) on Curves and their Jacobians /

• Main Author: Mumford, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 1999.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1358
• Subjects: Algebraic geometry.; Algebraic Geometry.

Mumford's famous Red Book gives a simple readable account of the basic objects of algebraic geometry, preserving as much as possible their geometric flavor and integrating this with the tools of commutative algebra. It is aimed at graduate students or mathematicians in other fields wishing to l...

Table of Contents:

• Varieties
• Preschemes
• Local properties of schemes
• References
• Appendix: Curves and their Jacobians
• Survey of work on the Schottky problem up to 1996 (by Enrico Arbarello)
• References
• Guide to the Literature and References (Curves and Their Jacobians)
• Supplementary Bibliography on the Schottky Problem.