English Explanatory Dictionary

Riemann-Roch theorem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An important theorem in complex analysis and algebraic geometry for the computation of the dimension of the space of meromorphic functions with prescribed zeros and allowed poles.

Word forms

Riemann-Roch theorem the Riemann-Roch theorem

Etymology

Initially proven by Bernhard Riemann (1857); further work was done by Riemann's student Gustav Roch (1865).

Related words

Weierstrass point
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