IGOR R. SHAFAREVICH

This book is a revised and expanded new edition of the first four chapters of Shafarevich's well-known introductory book on algebraic geometry. Besides correcting misprints and inaccuracies, the author has added plenty of new material, mostly concrete geometrical material such as Grassmannian varieties, plane cubic curves, the cubic surface, deg...

Shafarevich's Basic Algebraic Geometry has been a classic and universally used introduction to...