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Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms

David A. Cox, John Little, and Donal O'Shea
Publisher: 
Springer
Publication Date: 
2015
Number of Pages: 
646
Format: 
Hardcover
Edition: 
4
Series: 
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Price: 
69.99
ISBN: 
9783319167206
Category: 
Textbook
BLL Rating: 
BLL*

The Basic Library List Committee recommends this book for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.

[Reviewed by
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
, on
06/6/2015
]

See our review of the third edition. The new edition incorporates many changes, often reflecting recent research. In particular, there is a new chapter on “Additional Grobner Basis Algorithms” and the appendix on computer algebra systems has been updated.

  • Geometry, Algebra, and Algorithms

  • Gröbner Bases

  • Elimination Theory

  • The Algebra–Geometry Dictionary

  • Polynomial and Rational Functions on a Variety

  • Robotics and Automatic Geometric Theorem Proving

  • Invariant Theory of Finite Groups

  • Projective Algebraic Geometry

  • The Dimension of a Variety

  • Additional Gröbner Basis Algorithms

 
Tags: 
Algebraic Geometry
Commutative Algebra