Positivity in Algebraic Geometry I: Classical Setting: Line Bundles and Linear Series (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2004)Paperback - Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2004, 24 August 2004

Two volume work containing a contemporary account on Positivity in Algebraic Geometry

A good deal of the material has not previously appeared in book form

Volume I is more elementary than Volume II and can be read without access to Volume II

Topics in Volume I: ample line bundles and linear series on a projective variety, the classical theorems of Lefschetz and Bertini, vanishing theorems, local positivity

Contains many concrete examples, applications, and pointers to further developments