Lectures on Curves on an Algebraic Surface

<p>These lectures delivered by Professor Mumford at Harvard in 1963-1964 are devoted to a study of properties of families of algebraic curves on a non-singular projective algebraic curve defined over an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic. The methods and techniques of Grothendieck which have so changed the character of algebraic geometry in recent years are used systematically throughout. Thus the classical material is presented from a new viewpoint.</p>