Mumford is a well-known mathematician and winner of the Fields Medal, the highest honor available in mathematics.
Many of these papers are currently unavailable, and the commentaries by Gieseker, Lange, Viehweg and Kempf are being published here for the first time.
...This volume contains a collection of 30 of the 51 papers that Mumford wrote in algebraic geometry. The volume divides Mumford's papers into three broad areas, each preceded by an easy summarizing the results and outlining their influence on further developments by David Gieseker, George Kempf, Herbert Lange and Eckhart Viehweg.Further generations of researchers in this field, graduate students, mathematical physicists, and mathematical historians will profit a great deal from this collection of selected papers.