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In 1964, Heisuke Hironaka proved a fundamental theorem: Every quasi-projective variety can be desingularized, or equivalently, every variety is “birationally equivalent” to a smooth projective variety. Before we can state this theorem, we need to introduce some new ideas.
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Smith, K.E., Kahanpää, L., Kekäläinen, P., Traves, W. (2000). Birational Geometry. In: An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4497-2_7
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