This book was written to furnish a starting point for the study of algebraic geometry. The topics presented and methods of presenting them were chosen with the following ideas in mind; to keep the treat­ ment as elementary as possible, to introduce some of the recently devel­ oped algebraic methods of handling problems of algebraic geometry, to show how these methods are related to the older analytic and geometric methods, and to apply the general methods to specific geometric prob­ lems.  Meer

'Je leert hier heel weinig, er zijn onvoldoende leerkrachten, en wij jongens van het Instituut Benjamenta zullen het tot niets brengen, d.w.z. dat we allemaal in ons latere leven iets heel kleins en ondergeschikts zullen zijn.  Meer

Robert Walser's great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by J. M. Coetzee.  Meer