Jeremy Gray colloquium talk

Jeremy Gray, The Open University
"The Riemann-Roch theorem and geometry, 1854-1916"
May 7, 1998

The Riemann-Roch theorem is a celebrated example of a result in mathematics that has many meanings and many, diverse, applications. In this talk, I shall concentrate on some of the more geometrical interpretations made of Riemann's ideas-- themselves part of his re-creation of complex function theory -- taking the story via the work of Brill and Noether to the original classification of algebraic surfaces by Castelnuovo and Enriques.

Jeremy Gray, The Open University "The Riemann-Roch theorem and geometry, 1854-1916" May 7, 1998

Jeremy Gray, The Open University
"The Riemann-Roch theorem and geometry, 1854-1916"
May 7, 1998