Preface | |
Introduction | |
General Ramification Theory | |
Elementary lemmas from ideal theory | |
Primary decomposition in non-noetherian rings | |
Integral dependence | |
Linear algebra | |
Discriminant of an algebra | |
The discriminant ideal | |
Galois theory of local rings | |
Valuation Theory | |
Ordered abelian groups | |
Valuations | |
Specialization and composition of valuations | |
Ramification theory of valuations | |
Valuations of algebraic function fields | |
Noetherian Local Rings | |
The dimension of a noetherian local ring | |
Quadratic transforms | |
Two-Dimensional Local Domains | |
Limits of quadratic sequences | |
Uniformization in a two-dimensional regular local domain | |
Uniformization for a two-dimensional algebraic function field | |
Varieties and Transformations | |
Projective varieties | |
Resolution of singularities of algebraic surfaces | |
Bibliography | |
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