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In this introductory chapter we present three topics. The first one is the basic theory of transcendental fields, which is needed due to the fact that any function field is a finitely generated transcendental extension of a given field.
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(2006). Algebraic and Numerical Antecedents. In: Topics in the Theory of Algebraic Function Fields. Mathematics: Theory & Applications. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4515-2_1
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