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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Robert Bix |
ISBN: | 9780387318028 038731802X 9781441921789 1441921788 9780387392738 0387392734 |
OCLC Number: | 72069141 |
Description: | viii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Intersections of curves -- Conics -- Cubics -- Parametrizing curves. |
Series Title: | Undergraduate texts in mathematics. |
Responsibility: | Robert Bix. |
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"...This book therefore belongs to the admirable tradition of laying the foundations of a difficult and potentially abstract subject by means of concrete and accessible examples. ... Two major strengths of the book are its historical perspective, in the form of informative introductions to the chapters which give the main developments in non-technical language, and its exercises, which are numerous and interesting." Peter Giblin for MathSciNetFrom the reviews of the second edition:"Algebraic geometry is a hard subject. ... But could it, or at least some of it, be presented, at the undergraduate level? This book attempts to do that. ... At the beginning of each of the four chapters, the author provides a synopsis of the historical development of the subject. And within each section many exercises are provided for further discussion and illumination. ... And the author manages to keep things concrete. So, the end result is a book which is accessible ... ." (Donald L. Vestal, MathDL - online, October, 2006) Read more...


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