Real Algebraic Geometry and Ordered Structures: AMS Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Ordered Algebraic Structures Held at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, April 17-21, 1996 : Special Semester on Real Algebraic Geometry and Ordered Structures Held at Louisiana State University and Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA, January-May 1996

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Charles N. Delzell, James J. Madden
American Mathematical Society, Jan 1, 2000 - Mathematics - 287 pages
Contains 16 papers from an April 1996 meeting by 23 contributors, providing an overview of the field and encompassing both expository and original research. Topics include topology of real algebraic curves, effective sums of squares of real forms, efficient real quantifier elimination, subanalytic sets and stratifications, semialgebraic singularity theory, and radial vector fields. Other subjects are exponential functions and valuations on nonarchimedean ordered fields, valued field extensions, and abstract spaces of higher-level orderings and real places. Lacks a subject index.

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