Ramified Surfaces : On Branch Curves and Algebraic Geometry in the 20th Century /

The book offers an extensive study on the convoluted history of the research of algebraic surfaces, focusing for the first time on one of its characterizing curves: the branch curve. Starting with separate beginnings during the 19th century with descriptive geometry as well as knot theory, the book...

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Main Author: Friedman, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Frontiers in the History of Science,
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