Topics in Noncommutative Geometry (MB Porter Lectures)

Manin, YI

ISBN 10: 0691085889 / ISBN 13: 9780691085883

Published by Princeton University Press, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Topics in Noncommutative Geometry (MB Porter Lectures)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691085889
• ISBN 13: 9780691085883
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 500 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

There is a well-known correspondence between the objects of algebra and geometry: a space gives rise to a function algebra; a vector bundle over the space corresponds to a projective module over this algebra; cohomology can be read off the de Rham complex; and so on. In this book Yuri Manin addresses a variety of instances in which the application of commutative algebra cannot be used to describe geometric objects, emphasizing the recent upsurge of activity in studying noncommutative rings as if they were function rings on "noncommutative spaces." Manin begins by summarizing and giving examples of some of the ideas that led to the new concepts of noncommutative geometry, such as Connes' noncommutative de Rham complex, supergeometry, and quantum groups. He then discusses supersymmetric algebraic curves that arose in connection with superstring theory; examines superhomogeneous spaces, their Schubert cells, and superanalogues of Weyl groups; and provides an introduction to quantum groups. This book is intended for mathematicians and physicists with some background in Lie groups and complex geometry.

Originally published in 1991.

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Review

"[This reviewer] like[s] the book a lot. First, because of the excellent mathematics it contains. But second, because of the truly enlightening way this mathematics gets conveyed to the reader."--Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society