This is an English translation of the book in Japanese, published as the volume 20 in the series of Seminar Notes from The University of Tokyo that grew out of a course of lectures by Professor Kunihiko Kodaira in 1967. It serves as an almost self-contained introduction to the theory of complex algebraic surfaces, including concise proofs of Gorenstein's theorem for curves on a surface and Noether's formula for the arithmetic genus. It also discusses the behavior of the pluri-canonical maps of surfaces of general type as a practical application of the general theory. The book is aimed at graduate students and also at anyone interested in algebraic surfaces, and readers are expected to have only a basic knowledge of complex manifolds as a prerequisite.
| ISBN: | 9789811573798 |
| Publication date: | 18th September 2020 |
| Author: | Kunihiko Kodaira |
| Publisher: | Springer Verlag, Singapore |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 75 pages |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Mathematics |
| Genres: |
Algebraic geometry Complex analysis, complex variables |