How to Use algebraic geometry in a Sentence

algebraic geometry

noun
Definition of algebraic geometrynext
  • On the other side is the realm of algebraic geometry, the world of complex numbers.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2017
  • A few years ago, the University of Utah mathematician and Birkar co-authored one of the most important papers in the field of algebraic geometry, cited in Birkar’s award.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2019
  • One method arose in the mathematical field of algebraic geometry.
    — Kevin Hartnett, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The first option came from the mathematical field of algebraic geometry; a second one came from the mathematical field of symplectic geometry.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 May 2018
  • For work in arithmetic algebraic geometry including applications to the theory of Shimura varieties and the Riemann-Hilbert problem for p-adic varieties.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 5 Sep. 2019
  • One of this year’s four winners, Cambridge University’s Caucher Birkar, was recognized for his pioneering work in an abstract subfield called algebraic geometry.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2019
  • Finally, in the mid-nineteen-eighties, progress on various aspects of algebraic geometry suggested a way forward to the mathematician Andrew Wiles.
    — Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 20 June 2021
  • Last Theorem was proved, by Andrew Wiles, in 1994, Grothendieck’s contributions to algebraic geometry were essential.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
  • Ostensibly, the course was an introduction to algebraic geometry, the study of solutions to algebraic equations and their geometric properties.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 7 July 2022
  • Shou-Wu Zhang, who later left Columbia for Princeton, worked simultaneously in number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Dec. 2015
  • Professor du Sautoy’s research focuses on number theory, utilizing a wide range of topics such as model theory, algebraic geometry, and analytic methods.
    — Gabriel A. Silva, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • In the 1960s, the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck advanced a deeply influential theory about algebraic geometry.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Today, category theory and its next-generation version, higher category theory, are central to many fields of math, from algebraic geometry to mathematical physics.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2020

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