Download or read book Algebraic Functions and Projective Curves written by David Goldschmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an introduction to algebraic functions and projective curves. It covers a wide range of material by dispensing with the machinery of algebraic geometry and proceeding directly via valuation theory to the main results on function fields. It also develops the theory of singular curves by studying maps to projective space, including topics such as Weierstrass points in characteristic p, and the Gorenstein relations for singularities of plane curves.