文档介绍：Progress in Mathematics
Volume 235
Series Editors
Hyman Bass
Joseph Oesterle´
Alan Weinstein
Geometric Methods
in Algebra and
Number Theory
Fedor Bogomolov
Yuri Tschinkel
Editors
Birkhauser¨
Boston • Basel • Berlin
Fedor Bogomolov Yuri Tschinkel
New York University Princeton University
Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Princeton, NJ 08544
New York, NY 10012 .
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AMS Subject Classifications: 11G18, 11G35, 11G50, 11F85, 14G05, 14G20, 14G35, 14G40, 14L30,
14M15, 14M17, 20G05, 20G35
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Geometric methods in algebra and number theory / Fedor Bogomolov, Yuri Tschinkel, editors.
p. cm. –(Progress in mathematics ; v. 235)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8176-4349-4 (acid-free paper)
1. Algebra. 2. Geometry, Algebraic. 3. Number theory. I. Bogomolov, Fedor, 1946- II.
Tschinkel, Yuri. III. Progress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.); v. 235.
2004
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Preface
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