The Hironaka theorem on resolution of singularities (Or: A proof we always wanted to understand)
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This paper is a handyman’s manual for learning how to resolve the singularities of algebraic varieties defined over a field of characteristic zero by sequences of blowups.References
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Additional Information
- Herwig Hauser
- Affiliation: Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- MR Author ID: 82620
- Email: herwig.hauser@uibk.ac.at
- Received by editor(s): June 25, 2002
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 3, 2002
- Published electronically: May 6, 2003
- Additional Notes: Supported in part by FWF-Project P-15551 of the Austrian Ministry of Science
- © Copyright 2003 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40 (2003), 323-403
- MSC (2000): Primary 14B05, 14E15, 32S05, 32S10, 32S45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-03-00982-0
- MathSciNet review: 1978567