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In this chapter we consider schemes that are more closely connected with quasiprojective varieties. These schemes are called algebraic varieties. It is precisely this concept that we arrive at in trying to give an invariant definition of an algebraic variety.
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Shafarevich, I.R. (1977). Varieties. In: Basic Algebraic Geometry. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 213. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96200-4_6
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