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020			_a9781139173285 (ebook)
020			_z9780521641401 (hardback)
020			_z9780521646413 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aQA565 _b.G5 1998
082	0	0	_a516.3/52 _221
100	1		_aGibson, Christopher G., _d1940- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aElementary geometry of algebraic curves : _ban undergraduate introduction / _cC.G. Gibson.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1998.
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520			_aThis is a genuine introduction to plane algebraic curves from a geometric viewpoint, designed as a first text for undergraduates in mathematics, or for postgraduate and research workers in the engineering and physical sciences. The book contains several hundred worked examples and exercises, making it suitable for adoption as a course text. From the lines and conics of elementary geometry the reader proceeds to general curves in the real affine plane, with excursions to more general fields to illustrate applications, such as number theory. By adding points at infinity the affine plane is extended to the projective plane, yielding a natural setting for curves and providing a flood of illumination into the underlying geometry. A minimal amount of algebra leads to the famous theorem of Bezout, whilst the ideas of linear systems are used to discuss the classical group structure on the cubic.
650		0	_aCurves, Algebraic.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521641401
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139173285
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