Algebra - Vol.5: Homological Algebra

This book, the first printing of which was published as volume 38 of the Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences, presents a modern approach to homological algebra, based on the systematic use of the terminology and ideas of derived categories and derived functors. The book contains applications of homological algebra to the theory of sheaves on topological spaces, to Hodge theory, and to the theory of modules over rings of algebraic differential operators (algebraic D-modules). The authors Gelfand and Manin explain all the main ideas of the theory of derived categories. Both authors are well-known researchers and the second, Manin, is famous for his work in algebraic geometry and mathematical physics. The book is an excellent reference for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and also for physicists who use methods from algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.

List of contents

1. Complexes and Cohomology.- 2. The Language of Categories.- 3. Homology Groups in Algebra and in Geometry.- 4. Derived Categories and Derived Functors.- 5. Triangulated Categories.- 6. Mixed Hodge Structures.- 7. Perverse Sheaves.- 8. D-Modules.- References.- Author Index.

About the author

:Karin Bock ist wissenschaftliche Assistentin im Fachgebiet Bildung - Medien - Wirtschaft/Allg. Erziehungwissenschaft der TU Chemnitz
Dr. Werner Thole ist Professor für Jugend- und Erwachsenenbildung an der Universität Kassel.

Product details

• Authors: S.I. Gelfand, Yu.I. Manin
• Assisted by: A.I. Kostrikin (Editor), Aleksej I. Kostrikin (Editor), I.R. Shafarevich (Editor), Igor R. Shafarevich (Editor), S.I. Gelfand (Translation), Yu.I. Manin (Translation)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• EAN: 9783540533733
• ISBN: 978-3-540-53373-3
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 19 mm x 239 mm
• Illustrations: V, 222 p.
• Sets: Algebra; Algebra
• Series: Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences; Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Arithmetic, algebra