Contemporary Trends in Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Topology

by Chern, Shiing-Shen; Fu, Lei; Hain, Richard M.; Chow, Wei-Liang; Chen, K. T.

• ISBN13: 9789810249540
• ISBN10: 9810249543
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

This volume contains selected papers presented at the conference. The topics include canonical maps of Gorenstein 3-folds, fundamental groups of algebraic curves, Chen's interated integrals, algebraic fiber spaces, and others.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Mathematics in the 20th Century	1	(22)
Sir M. Atiyah
The Φ4 of Minimal Gorenstein 3-Folds of General Type	23	(16)
M. Chen
Morphisms of Curves and the Fundamental Group	39	(16)
M. Cushman
Iterated Integrals and Algebraic Cycles: Examples and Prospects	55	(64)
R. Hain
Chen's Iterated Integrals and Algebraic Cycles	119	(16)
B. Harris
On Algebraic Fiber Spaces	135	(20)
Y. Kawamata
Local Holomorphic Isometric Embeddings Arising From Correspondences in The Rank-1 Case	155	(12)
N. Mok
Multiple Polylogarithms: Analytic Continuation, Monodromy, and Variations of Mixed Hodge Structures	167	(28)
J. Zhao
Deformation Types of Real and Complex Manifolds	195	(44)
F. Catanese
Wei-Liang Chow, 1911--1995	239	(4)
S. S. Chern
Comments on Chow's Work	243	(8)
S. Lang
The Life and Work of Kuo-Tsai Chen	251
R. Hain
Ph. Tondeur