Geometric Galois Actions: Around Grothendieck's Esquisse D'Un Programme

Book Overview

The first of two volumes on anabelian algebraic geometry, this book contains the famous manuscript Esquisse d'un Programme (Sketch of a Program) by Alexander Grothendieck. This work, written fourteen years after his retirement from public life in mathematics, includes the closely related letter to Gerd Faltings, published for the first time in this volume. Together these documents describe a powerful program of future mathematics, unifying aspects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521596424
• ISBN13: 9780521596428
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"