algebraic geometry

noun

, Mathematics.

1. the study of sets that are defined by algebraic equations.

Word History and Origins

Origin of algebraic geometry¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Mathematicians still use Noether’s map today, not just in ring theory, but in other areas such as number theory and algebraic geometry.

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In the mid-1950s, Is spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, then a locus of radical advances in topology and algebraic geometry.

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