TY - BOOK AU - Mumford,David ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Tata Lectures on Theta I T2 - Modern Birkhäuser Classics SN - 9780817645779 U1 - 515.5 23 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Birkhäuser Boston KW - MATHEMATICS KW - GEOMETRY, ALGEBRAIC KW - FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS KW - FUNCTIONS OF COMPLEX VARIABLES KW - FUNCTIONS, SPECIAL KW - MATHEMATICS_{DOLLAR}XHISTORY KW - NUMBER THEORY KW - SPECIAL FUNCTIONS KW - FUNCTIONS OF A COMPLEX VARIABLE KW - ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY KW - HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS N2 - The first of a series of three volumes surveying the theory of theta functions and its significance in the fields of representation theory and algebraic geometry, this volume deals with the basic theory of theta functions in one and several variables, and some of its number theoretic applications. Requiring no background in advanced algebraic geometry, the text serves as a modern introduction to the subject UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4577-9 ER -