Barry Dayton's Space
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Email: barryhdayton@gmail.com Personal Note: I am now living in Ridgefield Connecticut.
Google Scholar Page Theory of Equations Book Witt vectors and Necklaces More on Witt Vectors:
Papers with C.A. Weibel: Multiplicity (with Z.Zeng and T.Y. Li) Multiple Zeros of Non-linear Systems Algebraic Foundation of Local Multiplicity Recent Talks and Papers Configurations of Lines AG11 Numerical Algebraic Geometry via Numerical Polynomial Algebra AN12 Numerical Algebraic Geometry via Macaulay's Perspective Quadratic Surface Intersection Curves For latest version see Explicit Regular QSIC.pdf
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The main point of this book is to show that appropriate computer software can make this subject accessible to those who do not have the patience to master the big abstract theorems that usually define the field of abstract algebraic geometry. That doesn't mean we can ignore those theorems but does mean that we can concentrate on the application of these theorems rather than their development. To some extent this book was motivated by Shreeram Abhyankar's text Algebraic Geometry for Scientists and Engineers which, in my mind, missed the target audience by failing to illustrate the abstract ideas developed. I hope this book proves more interesting and readable to this audience. The bulk of the book should be accessible to individuals who have had a standard pre-calculus course and have a working knowledge of the Wolfram Language. Numerical linear algebra is extensively used in the book but is hidden in the algorithms. An appendix is provided for those with a basic knowledge of linear algebra who want to learn more about this aspect.
I first discuss naive space curves in 3-space, that is, curves defined by a system of two equations in 3 variables. Not only is this case familiar to what we learned in multivariable calculus but many methods in the plane curve case such as critical points and path tracing are still available. Then I develop the methods from numerical linear algebra that will be needed: Macaulay and Sylvester matrices and duality. The basic definitions and techniques for the general case will then be established. The last part covers, as examples, various situations I have recently presented in papers and talks. These are listed at the end of the left sidebar of this webpage. This story covers naive implicit surfaces and parametric surfaces in reall projective three space. The second edition is now available. It is divided into 3 parts, the first part gives basic definitions and a preview of the whole book. The second part gives details on quadric surfaces, cubic surfaces and some higher dimensional surfaces, especialy the torus. The third part concerns the topology of hyperboloids and tori with an application to the topology of complex projective plane conic and cubic curves. Here are several recent papers of mine. Note on Intersection of Rational Curves (PDF) and Interpolating Rational Normal Curves. See also my earlier paper Degree vs Dimension for rational parametric curves in the Mathematica Journal. NEW I have recently posted several self contained summaries of some of the material in my books in the Wolfram Community. These are available in web readable formats as well as Mathematica Notebooks. Barry H Dayton Wolfram Community Home |