The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes: Includes the Michigan Lectures (1974) on Curves and their Jacobians (Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1358) [2nd exp. ed. 1999]
354063293X, 9783540632931
Mumford's famous Red Book gives a simple readable account of the basic objects of algebraic geometry, preserving as
Table of contents : Cover LNM 1358 Title Page Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Table of Contents I. Varieties §1. Some algebra §2. Irreducible algebraic sets §3. Definition of a morphism §4. Sheaves and affine varieties §5. Definition of prevarieties and morphisms §6. Products and the Hausdorff axiom §7. Dimension §8. The fibres of a morphism §9. Complete varieties §10. Complex varieties II. Preschemes §1. Spec (R) §2. The category of preschemes §3. Varieties and preschemes §4. Fields of definition §5. Closed subpreschemcs §G. The functor of points of a prescheme §7. Proper morphisms and finite morphisms §8. Specialization III. Local Properties of Schemes §1. Quasi-coherent modules §2. Coherent modules §3. Tangent cones §4. Non-singularity and differentials §5. Etale morphisms §6. Uniformizing parameters §7. Non-singularity and the UFD property §8. Normal varieties and normalization §9. Zariski's Main Theorem §10. Flat and smooth morphisms Appendix: Curves and Their Jacobians I. What is a Curve and How Explicitly Can We Describe Them II. The Moduli Space of Curves: Definition, Coordinatization, and Some Properties III. How Jacobians and Theta Functions Arise IV. The Torelli Theorem and the Schottky Problem Survey of Work on the Schottky Problem up to 1996 by Enrico Arbarello References: The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes Guide to the Literature and References: Curves and Their Jacobians Supplementary Bibliography on the Schottky Problem by Enrico Arbarello