Timeline for Is there a "crash-course" book on Abelian varieties (e.g., an introduction for physicists)?
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| Jan 6, 2011 at 2:00 | comment | added | Eric Zaslow | Ha ha... but when I collaborated with Polishchuk I was less than two years out of my physics Ph.D.! You're right, though. I wonder what the intended application is, and what the questioner thinks. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 0:48 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @Eric Zaslow: I hate to get ad hominem here, but: you may call yourself a physicist (and I see that your PhD was in physics), but Northwestern University calls you Professor of Mathematics. Again, I worry that a less mathematically sophisticated individual than yourself might have trouble with Polishchuk's book. But it's no problem: the point here is to present an array of options, and your answer certainly contributes to that. | |
| Jan 5, 2011 at 22:32 | comment | added | Eric Zaslow | I found it very explicit and formula-based in a way that a physicist (such as myself?) could easily latch onto. | |
| Jan 5, 2011 at 19:56 | comment | added | solbap | I agree with Pete. The algebraic part of this book uses many results from algebraic geometry without reference. Similarly the analytic part of the book would probably require being read in parallel with a book on complex manifolds. | |
| Jan 5, 2011 at 19:22 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | I worry this would be a hard read for a theoretical physicist. | |
| Jan 5, 2011 at 16:08 | history | answered | Eric Zaslow | CC BY-SA 2.5 |