The unreal life of Oscar Zariski

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 That Darling Old Lady Kobrin and Chernigov 1899– 1918
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   Chapter 2 Birds Whirling like Numbers Kiev 1918–1920
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   Chapter 3 Three Great Mathematicians Rome 1921–1926
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   Chapter 4 Reading Pushkin and Dante
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   Chapter 5 “Oscar, You Are Not One of Us.”
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   Chapter 6 Walking with Lefschetz Baltimore 1927–1928
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   Chapter 7 A Voyage of Discovery 1928–1932
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   Chapter 8 “The Algebra Which Sheds Light on Geometry” 1932–1935
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    Chapter 9 A Citizen of the World of Mathematics 1935–1937
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    Chapter 10 The Resolution of Some Singularities
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    Chapter 11 A Land of Intellectual Cannibals 1939–1944
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    Chapter 12 “A Superb Audience of One … André Weil” São Paulo 1945
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    Chapter 13 Normal Points of a Variety Cambridge 1947
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    Chapter 14 The Pure Pleasure of It
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    Chapter 15 An Attack on the Theory of Linear Systems 1950–1956
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    Chapter 16 Tying Bells on Characteristic Zero 1957–1961
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    Chapter 17 A Feeling of Awe 1962–1974
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    Chapter 18 The Depth of His Attachment