algebraic geometry
noun
: a branch of mathematics concerned with describing the properties of geometric structures by algebraic expressions and especially those properties that are invariant under changes of coordinate systems
Anthropologist Clifford Geertz speaks of new "blurred genres" in scholarship, fields like cognitive science, molecular biology, bioethics, and algebraic geometry …—
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: the study of sets of points in space of n dimensions that satisfy systems of polynomial equations in which each equation contains n variables
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Introduction You were drawn to math because of Grothendieck’s revolution in algebraic geometry.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
The Mandelbrot set is deeply related not just to dynamics, but also to number theory, topology, algebraic geometry, group theory and even physics.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
Zhang’s result drew on a version of the Riemann hypothesis that lives in the world of algebraic geometry.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
Juliette Bruce is an NSF postdoctoral fellow in mathematics at the University of California, Berkley, who works in the field of algebraic geometry.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2021
Ostensibly, the course was an introduction to algebraic geometry, the study of solutions to algebraic equations and their geometric properties.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 July 2022
Melanie Matchett Wood, 41, a Harvard number theorist who also studies algebraic geometry, is an infectious mathematician.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
Certain versions of algebraic geometry codes might just work.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
The Mandelbrot set is deeply related not just to dynamics, but also to number theory, topology, algebraic geometry, group theory and even physics.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
Zhang’s result drew on a version of the Riemann hypothesis that lives in the world of algebraic geometry.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
Juliette Bruce is an NSF postdoctoral fellow in mathematics at the University of California, Berkley, who works in the field of algebraic geometry.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2021
Ostensibly, the course was an introduction to algebraic geometry, the study of solutions to algebraic equations and their geometric properties.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 July 2022
Melanie Matchett Wood, 41, a Harvard number theorist who also studies algebraic geometry, is an infectious mathematician.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
Certain versions of algebraic geometry codes might just work.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2022
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