CONTENTS
Introd uc tion vii
A.lgebraic Preliminaries 1
I .ffine Spaces 6
II Projective Spaces 29
III Rational Curves 56
IV A.lgebraic Sets with Group Structure 69
V Segre and Veronese Varieties 77
VI Plucker Co-ordinates and Grassmann Varieties 88
Bibliography 101
Index 103