Introduction to Étale Cohomology (Universitext)

by: Günter Tamme (Author),M. Kolster(Translator)

Publisher: Springer

Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994

Publication Date: 1994/9/28

Language: English

Print Length: 195 pages

ISBN-10: 3540571167

ISBN-13: 9783540571162

Book Description

Étale Cohomology is one of the most important methods in mode Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory. It has, in the last decades, brought fundamental new insights in arithmetic and algebraic geometric problems with many applications and many important results. The book gives a short and easy introduction into the world of Abelian Categories, Derived Functors, Grothendieck Topologies, Sheaves, General Étale Cohomology, and Étale Cohomology of Curves.

About the Author

Étale Cohomology is one of the most important methods in mode Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory. It has, in the last decades, brought fundamental new insights in arithmetic and algebraic geometric problems with many applications and many important results. The book gives a short and easy introduction into the world of Abelian Categories, Derived Functors, Grothendieck Topologies, Sheaves, General Étale Cohomology, and Étale Cohomology of Curves.