Model Theory, Algebra, and Geometry (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).

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications
Release date:	July 2000
First published:	2000
Editors:	Deirdre Haskell • Anand Pillay • Charles Steinhorn
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	236
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-78068-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Mathematical modelling
LSN:	0-521-78068-3
Barcode:	9780521780681

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