"In writing the book, I tried to follow these definitions: 1. The basic examples should precede the abstract definitions. 2. Technical points should be presented only if they are used elsewhere in the book. 3. All topics should be important for the average mathematician."
"Important though the general concepts and propositions may be with which the modern and industrious passion for axiomatizing and generalizing has presented us, in algebra perhaps more than anywhere else, nevertheless I am convinced that the special problems in all their complexity constitute the sto"
作者简介
Michael Artin,当代领袖型代数学家与代数儿何学家之一,美国麻省理工学院教授。由于他在交换代数与非交换代数、环论以及现代代数儿何学等方面做出的毕生贞献,2002年获得美因数学学会颁发的Leroy P.Steele终身成就奖。Artin的生要贡献包括他的逼近定理,在解决沙法列维奇-泰特猜测中的工作以及为推广“概形”而创建的“代数空间”概念。