文档介绍：Progress in Mathematics
Volume 270
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Algebra, Arithmetic,
and Geometry
In Honor of Yu. I. Manin
Volume II
Yuri Tschinkel
Yuri Zarhin
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New York University Pennsylvania State University
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Preface
Yuri Ivanovich Manin has made outstanding contributions to algebra,
algebraic geometry, number theory, plexity, mutative
geometry and mathematical physics. His numerous achievements include the
proof of the functional analogue of the Mordell Conjecture, the theory of the
Gauss–Manin connection, proof with V. Iskovskikh of the nonrationality of