Introduction
Prerequisites
Chapter 1. Affine Varieties
1A. Their Definition, Tangent Space, Dimension, Smooth and Singular Points.
1B. Analytic Uniformization at Smooth Points, Examples of Topological Knottedness at Singular Points
1C. Ox,xa UFD when x Smooth; Divisor of Zeroes and Poles of Functions
Chapter 2. Projective Varieties
2A. Their Definition, Extension of Concepts from Aftine to Projective Case
2B. Products, Segre Embedding, Correspondences
2C. Elimination Theory, Noether's Normalization Lemma, Density of Zariski-Open Sets
Chapter 3. Structure of Correspondences
3A. Local Properties——Smooth Maps, Fundamental Openness Principle, Zariski's Main Theorem
3B. Global Propcrties——Zariski's Connectedness Theorem, Specialization Principle
3C. Intersections on Smooth Varieties
Chapter 4. Chow's Theorem
4A. Internally and Externally Defined Analytic Sets and their Local Descriptions as Branched Coverings of C'.
4B. Applications to Uniqueness of Algebraic Structure and Connectedness
Chapter 5. Degree of a Projective Variety
5A. Definition of deg X, multxX, of the Blow up Bx(X), Effect of a Projection, Examples
5B. Bezout's Theorem
5C. Volume of a Projective Variety; Review of Homology, DeRham's Theorem, Varieties as Minimal Submanifolds
Chapter 6. Linear Systems
6A. The Correspondence between Linear Systems and Rational Maps, Examples; Complete Linear Systems are Finite-Dimensional
6B. Differential Forms, Canonical Divisors and Branch Loci
6C. Hilbert Polynomials, Relations with Degree
Appendix to Chapter 6. The Weil-Samuel Algebraic Theory of Multiplicity
Chapter 7. Curves and Their Genus
7A. Existence and Uniqueness of the Non-Singular Model of Each Function Field of Transcendence Degree 1 (after Albanese)
7B.Arithmetic Genus = Topological Genus; Existence of Good Projections to p1, p2, p3
7C. Residues of Differentials on Curves, the Classical Riemann-Roch Theorem for Curves and Applications
7D. Curves of Genus 1 as Plane Cubics and as Complex Tori C/L
Chapter 8. The Birational Geometry of Surfaces
8A. Generalities on Blowing up Points
8B. Resolution of Singularities of Curves on a Smooth Surface by Blowing up the Surface; Examples
8C. Factorization of Birational Maps between Smooth Surfaces; the Trees of Infinitely Near Points
8D. The Birational Map between P“ and the Quadric and Cubic Surfaces; the 27 Lines on a Cubic Surface
Bibliography
List of Notations
Index