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

Intersection theory, one of Larson’s specialties, is a branch of a field called algebraic geometry.

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But in algebraic geometry, I would say intersection theory is especially interesting when we work with moduli spaces.

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Melanie Matchett Wood, 41, a Harvard number theorist who also studies algebraic geometry, is an infectious mathematician.

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Melanie Matchett Wood, 41, Cambridge, Massachusetts, mathematician whose statistical analyses have helped answer questions related to number theory and algebraic geometry.

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I once asked André Weil, a legendary climber of mathematical peaks, if it bothered him that few people knew of his accomplishments in number theory and algebraic geometry, and fewer still understood them.

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