These lectures, delivered by Professor Mumford at Harvard in 1963-1964, are devoted to a study of properties of families of algebraic curves, on a non-singular projective algebraic curve defined over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic....

The new edition of this celebrated and long-unavailable book preserves the original book\'s content and structure and its unrivalled presentation of a universal method for the resolution of a class of singularities in algebraic geometry....

Computer vision seeks a process that starts with a noisy, ambiguous signal from a TV camera and ends with a high-level description of discrete objects located in 3-dimensional space and identified in a human classification. This book addresses the process at several levels....