TY - BOOK AU - Jacob,Bill AU - Lam,T.Y. AU - Robson,Robert O. ED - AMS Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Quadratic Forms TI - Recent advances in real algebraic geometry and quadratic forms: proceedings of the RAGSQUAD year, Berkeley, 1990-1991 T2 - Contemporary mathematics, SN - 9780821877463 (online) AV - QA564 .R43 1994 U1 - 512/.74 20 PY - 1994/// CY - Providence, R.I. PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Geometry, Algebraic KW - Forms, Quadratic N1 - Papers resulting from a course held at the University of California at Berkeley, 1990-91 and the AMS Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Quadratic Forms held in San Francisco, Jan. 1991, both comprising the special year dubbed RAGSQUAD; Includes bibliographical references; D. W. Dubois and the pioneer days of real algebraic geometry; Tom�as Recio and Carlos Andradas --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01370; On algebraic structures of manifolds; S. Akbulut --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01371; On local uniformization of orderings; Carlos Andradas and Jes�us M. Ruiz --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01372; Real algebraic geometry over $p$-real closed fields; Ralph Berr --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01373; On the reduction of semialgebraic sets by real valuations; Ludwig Br�ocker --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01374; Orderings for noncommutative rings; Thomas C. Craven --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01375; Nonexistence of analytically varying solutions to Hilbert's 17th problem; Charles N. Delzell --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01376; A combinatorial geometric structure on the space of orders of a field. II; M. A. Dickmann --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01377; Formal determination of polynomial consequences of real orthogonal matrices; M. J. Gonz�alez-L�opez and T. Recio --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01378; On valuation spectra; Roland Huber and Manfred Knebusch --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01379; Minimal generation of basic sets in the real spectrum of a commutative ring; M. Marshall --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01380; A new proof of the homogeneous Nullstellensatz for $p$-fields, and applications to topology; Albrecht Pfister --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01381; The compatible valuation rings of the coordinate ring of the real plane; M. J. de la Puente --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01382; Estimates for parametric nonuniformity in representations of a definite polynomial as a sum of fourth powers; Gilbert Stengle --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01383; On generators for the Witt ring; J�on Kr. Arason, Richard Elman and Bill Jacob --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01384; On the trace formula for quadratic forms; Eberhard Becker and Thorsten W�oermann --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01385; Quadratic forms with values in line bundles; W. Bichsel and M.-A. Knus --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01386; On annihilators in graded Witt rings and in Milnor's $K$-theory; Martin Kr�uskemper --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01387; An application of the theory of order completions; Ka Hin Leung --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01388; Growth of the $u$-invariant under algebraic extensions; David B. Leep and A. S. Merkurjev --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01389; Remarks on Merkurjev's investigations of the $u$-invariant; J�an Min�a�c --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01390; On the canonical class of a curve and the extension property for quadratic forms; R. Parimala and W. Scharlau --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01391; Reduced norms and Pfaffians via Brauer-Severi schemes; R. Parimala and R. Sridharan --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01392; Matching Witts with global fields; R. Perlis, K. Szymiczek, P. E. Conner and R. Litherland --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01393; On Witt-kernels of function fields of curves; Jonathan Shick --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01394; On the canonical class of hyperelliptic curves; V. Suresh --; http://www.ams.org/conm/155; http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155/01395; Access is restricted to licensed institutions; Electronic reproduction; Providence, Rhode Island; American Mathematical Society; 2012 UR - http://www.ams.org/conm/155/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/155 ER -