Download or read book Introduction to the Mori Program written by Kenji Matsuki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mori's Program is a fusion of the so-called Minimal Model Program and the IItaka Program toward the biregular and/or birational classification of higher dimensional algebraic varieties. The author presents this theory in an easy and understandable way with lots of background motivation. Prerequisites are those covered in Hartshorne's book "Algebraic Geometry." This is the first book in this extremely important and active field of research and will become a key resource for graduate students wanting to get into the area.