Collected Papers of Wei-Liang Chow, The. World Scientific Series in 20th Century Mathematics, Volume 8. (Electronic book text)

This work contains the collected papers of Professor Wei-Liang Chow, an original and versatile mathematician of the 20th century. Professor Chow's name has become a household word in mathematics because of the Chow ring, Chow co-ordinates, and Chow's theorem on analytic sets in projective spaces. The Chow ring has many advantages and is widely used in intersection theory of algebraic geometry. Chow co-ordinates have been a very versatile tool in many aspects of algebraic geometry. Chow's theorem - that a compact analytic variety in a projective space is algebraic - is justly famous; it shows the close analogy between algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory.