Model Theory, Algebra, and Geometry (Hardcover)

Deidre Haskell

ISBN 10: 0521780683 / ISBN 13: 9780521780681

Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000

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Hardcover. Model theory is a branch of mathematical logic that has found applications in several areas of algebra and geometry. It provides a unifying framework for the understanding of old results and more recently has led to significant new results, such as a proof of the Mordell-Lang conjecture for function fields in positive characteristic. Perhaps surprisingly, it is sometimes the most abstract aspects of model theory that are relevant to those applications. This book gives the necessary background for understanding both the model theory and the mathematics behind the applications. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, it contains introductory surveys by leading experts covering the whole spectrum of contemporary model theory (stability, simplicity, o-minimality and variations), and introducing and discussing the diverse areas of geometry (algebraic, diophantine, real analytic, p-adic, and rigid) to which the model theory is applied. The book begins with an introduction to model theory by David Marker. It then broadens into three components: pure model theory (Bradd Hart, Dugald Macpherson), geometry(Barry Mazur, Ed Bierstone and Pierre Milman, Jan Denef), and the model theory of fields (Marker, Lou van den Dries, Zoe Chatzidakis). Model theory is a branch of mathematical logic that has found applications in several areas of algebra and geometry. It provides a unifying framework for the understanding of old results and more recently has led to significant new results, such as a proof of the Mordell-Lang conjecture for function fields in positive characteristic. Perhaps surprisingly, it is sometimes the most abstract aspects of model theory that are relevant to those applications. This book gives the necessary background for understanding both the model theory and the mathematics behind the applications. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, it contains introductory surveys by leading experts covering the whole spectrum of contemporary model theory (stability, simplicity, o-minimality and variations), and introducing and discussing the diverse areas of geometry (algebraic, diophantine, real analytic, p-adic, and rigid) to which the model theory is applied. The book begins with an introduction to model theory by David Marker. It then broadens into three components: pure model theory (Bradd Hart, Dugald Macpherson), geometry(Barry Mazur, Ed Bierstone and Pierre Milman, Jan Denef), and the model theory of fields (Marker, Lou van den Dries, Zoe Chatzidakis). Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Model Theory, Algebra, and Geometry (Hardcover)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521780683
• ISBN 13: 9780521780681
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Leading experts survey the connections between model theory and semialgebraic, subanalytic, p-adic, rigid and diophantine geometry.

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Model theory has made substantial contributions to semialgebraic, subanalytic, p-adic, rigid and diophantine geometry. In this book, originally published in 2000, leading experts provide the necessary background to understanding the model theory and mathematics behind these applications.