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Author(s): David Mumford
Title: Selected papers on the classification of varieties and moduli spaces
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, New York, 2004, xiv+795 pp., US$99.00, ISBN 0-387-21092-X


References:

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A. Ash, D. Mumford, M. Rapoport, and Y. Tai, Smooth compactification of locally symmetric varieties, Math. Sci. Press, Brookline, Mass., 1975, Lie Groups: History, Frontiers and Applications, Vol. IV. MR 0457437 (56:15642)

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Alessio Corti and Miles Reid (eds.), Explicit birational geometry of 3-folds, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, vol. 281, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. MR 1798978 (2001f:14004)

[DM69]
P. Deligne and D. Mumford, The irreducibility of the space of curves of given genus, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. (1969), no. 36, 75-100. MR 0262240 (41:6850)

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[Gro69]
A. Grothendieck et al., Séminaire de géométrie algébrique du Bois Marie, 1-7, 12 published volumes, 1960-69.

[HM82]
Joe Harris and David Mumford, On the Kodaira dimension of the moduli space of curves, Invent. Math. 67 (1982), no. 1, 23-88. MR 664324 (83i:14018)

[KKMSD73]
G. Kempf, Finn Faye Knudsen, D. Mumford, and B. Saint-Donat, Toroidal embeddings. I, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1973, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 339. MR 0335518 (49:299)

[Mum61]
David Mumford, The topology of normal singularities of an algebraic surface and a criterion for simplicity, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. PUbl. Math. (1961), no. 9, 5-22. MR 0153682 (27:3643)

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D. Mumford, On the equations defining abelian varieties. I, Invent. Math. 1 (1966), 287-354. MR 0204427 (34:4269)

[Mum83]
David Mumford, On the Kodaira dimension of the Siegel modular variety, Algebraic geometry--open problems (Ravello, 1982), Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 997, Springer, Berlin, 1983, pp. 348-375. MR 714757 (85d:14061)

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Miles Reid, Tendencious survey of 3-folds, Algebraic geometry, Bowdoin, 1985 (Brunswick, Maine, 1985), Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. 46, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1987, pp. 333-344. MR 0927962 (89h:14033)

[Tat75]
J. Tate, The work of David Mumford, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (Vancouver, B. C., 1974), Vol. 1, Canad. Math. Congress, Montreal, Que., 1975, pp. 11-15. MR 0414290 (54:2393)


Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
János Kollár
Affiliation: Princeton University
Email: kollar@math.princeton.edu

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (2006), 111-114.

MSC (2000): Primary 01A75; Secondary 14-03
PII: S 0273-0979(05)01070-0
Posted: July 5, 2005
Copyright of article: Copyright 2005, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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