A Guide to Plane Algebraic Curves

摘要

This attractive little book shows us how a number of interesting mathematical shapes in two dimensions are expressed in algebraic terms. Requirements for readers are "some basic complex analysis, including Cauchy-Riemann equations, complex analytic functions, meromorphic functions and Laurent expansions" and "definitions of field, field isomorphism, algebraic extension of a field, integral domain, ideal and prime ideal", (p. viii). The tone is conversational and interesting and the explanations are concise and clear.