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Everybody knows that mathematics has a key role in the development of the modern technology. It is less known that the modern technology gives something back to mathematics. In this note we give an account on how the combination of classical results as the Riemann Existence Theorem with the use of computers and computational algebra programs answered interesting old-standing problems in classical algebraic geometry, namely regarding the construction and the classification of new surfaces of general type. We also give a full list of the surfaces constructed with this method up to now, and present the next challenges on the subject.
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The author is member of the FCT project PTDC/MAT/111332/2009 Moduli spaces in algebraic geometry, the PRIN 2010–2011 project Geometria delle varietà algebriche, and the Futuro in Ricerca 2012 project Spazi di moduli e applicazioni. All these groups supported this research.
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Pignatelli, R. (2014). Computer Aided Algebraic Geometry: Constructing Surfaces of Genus Zero. In: De Amicis, R., Conti, G. (eds) Future Vision and Trends on Shapes, Geometry and Algebra. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 84. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6461-6_6
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