3264 and All That

David Eisenbud is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently serves as Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. He is also a Director at Math for America, a foundation devoted to improving mathematics teaching. Joe Harris is Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.

• Introduction; 1. Introducing the Chow ring; 2. First examples; 3. Introduction to Grassmannians and lines in P3; 4. Grassmannians in general; 5. Chern classes; 6. Lines on hypersurfaces; 7. Singular elements of linear series; 8. Compactifying parameter spaces; 9. Projective bundles and their Chow rings; 10. Segre classes and varieties of linear spaces; 11. Contact problems; 12. Porteous' formula; 13. Excess intersections and the Chow ring of a blow-up; 14. The Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem; Appendix A. The moving lemma; Appendix B. Direct images, cohomology and base change; Appendix C. Topology of algebraic varieties; Appendix D. Maps from curves to projective space; References; Index.

'… the book covers an important part of classical algebraic geometry with a modern point of view. It is indeed highly recommendable for a second (or a third) course in algebraic geometry| and more generally, for every mathematician interested in concrete algebraic geometry.' Arnaud Beauville, MathSciNet