Written by Arthur Ogus on the basis of notes from Pierre Berthelot's
seminar on crystalline cohomology at Princeton University in the spring
of 1974, this book constitutes an informal introduction to a significant
branch of algebraic geometry. Specifically, it provides the basic tools
used in the study of crystalline cohomology of algebraic varieties in
positive characteristic.
Originally published in 1978.
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