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Book Information
Author(s):
Tadao Oda
Title:
Convex bodies and algebraic geometry: An introduction to toric varieties
Additional book information:
Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete 3, Folge, Band 15, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1988, $78.00. ISBN 3-540-17600-4
References:
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- C. Segre, Sulle rigate razionali in uno spazio lineare qualunque, Atti della R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 19 (1883-84), 355-372. Collected Works, vol. I, pp. 1-16.
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- V. I. Danilov, The geometry of toric varieties, Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 33 (1978), 85-134. English translation in Russian Math. Surveys 33 (1978), 97-154. MR 495499
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- M. Demazure, Sous-groupes algébriques de rang maximum du groupe de Cremona, Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (4) 3 (1970), 507-588. MR 284446
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- F. Hirzebruch, Hilbert modular surfaces, Enseign. Math. (2) 21 (1973), 183-282. MR 393045
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- R. P. Stanley, The number of faces of a simplicial convex polytope, Adv. in Math. 35 (1980), 236-238. MR 563925
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- G. Kempf and others, Toroidal embeddings. I, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 339, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1973. MR 335518
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Miles
Reid
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
21
(1989),
360-364.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1989-15864-3
PII:
S 0273-0979(1989)15864-3
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