Curves and their Jacobians/
David Mumford.
- Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1975.
- 104 p.: ill.; 26 m.
Expanded version of 4 Ziwet lectures given in 1974 at the University of Michigan.
Includes bibliographical references.
Lecture 1, What is a curve and how explicitly can we describe them?--Lecture 2, The moduli space of curves: definition, coordinatization, and some properties.--Lecture 3, How Jacobians and theta functions arise.--Lecture 4, The Torelli theorem and the Schottky problem .
Photocopy. Pasadena : California Institute of Technology. [ca 52] p. ill. ; 26 cm.