Böcker av J. W. P. Hirschfeld

Presents an introduction to the theory of algebraic curves over a finite field, a subject that has applications in areas such as finite geometry, number theory, error-correcting codes, and cryptology. This book emphasizes the algebraic geometry rather than the function field approach to algebraic curves.

This volume is a successor to the title listed below. This book restricts itself to three dimensions and considers both those topics which are analogues of geometry over the complex numbers and topics arising out of the modern theory of incidence structures.