Introduction to Singularities

• Main Author: Ishii, Shihoko (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Algebraic geometry.; Associative rings.; Rings (Algebra).; Commutative algebra.; Commutative rings.; Algebraic Geometry.; Associative Rings and Algebras.; Commutative Rings and Algebras.

This book is an introduction to singularities for graduate students and researchers. It is said that algebraic geometry originated in the seventeenth century with the famous work Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences by Descartes. In that book h...