TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gelfand, Israel M.
AU  - Kapranov, Mikhail
AU  - Zelevinsky, Andrei
TI  - Discriminants, resultants and multidimensional determinants
SN  - 9780817647704
U1  - 512.9432 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Birkhauser
KW  - Determinants
KW  - Discriminant analysis
KW  - Algebra
KW  - Mathematics
N1  - I : General discriminants and resultants --
Projective dual varieties and general discriminants --
The Cayley method for studying discriminants --
Associated varieties and general resultants --
Chow varieties --
II : A-discriminants and A-resultants --
Toric varieties --
Newton polytopes and chow polytopes --
Triangulations and secondary polytopes --
A-resultants and chow polytopes of toric varieties --
A-discriminants --
Principal A-determinants --
Regular A-determinants and A-discriminants --
III : Classical discriminants and resultants --
Discriminants and resultants for polynomials in one variable --
Discriminants and resultants for forms in several variables --
Hyperdeterminants
ER  -