TY - BOOK AU - Beauville,Arnaud TI - Complex algebraic surfaces T2 - London Mathematical Society student texts SN - 9780511623936 (ebook) AV - QA573 .B413 1996 U1 - 516.3/52 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Surfaces, Algebraic N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) N2 - Developed over more than a century, and still an active area of research today, the classification of algebraic surfaces is an intricate and fascinating branch of mathematics. In this book Professor Beauville gives a lucid and concise account of the subject, following the strategy of F. Enriques, but expressed simply in the language of modern topology and sheaf theory, so as to be accessible to any budding geometer. This volume is self contained and the exercises succeed both in giving the flavour of the extraordinary wealth of examples in the classical subject, and in equipping the reader with most of the techniques needed for research UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511623936 ER -