Download or read book Analytic Theory of Abelian Varieties written by H. P. F. Swinnerton-Dyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-12-12 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of abelian manifolds forms a natural generalization of the theory of elliptic functions, that is, of doubly periodic functions of one complex variable. When an abelian manifold is embedded in a projective space it is termed an abelian variety in an algebraic geometrical sense. This introduction presupposes little more than a basic course in complex variables. The notes contain all the material on abelian manifolds needed for application to geometry and number theory, although they do not contain an exposition of either application. Some geometrical results are included however.