The Riemann-Roch Theorem, for a compact Riemann surface or smooth projective algebraic curve, computes the dimension of the space of meromorphic functions allowed to have poles of a prescribed kind, in terms of the curve's genus and the prescribed poles, up to a correction term governed by a related space of differential forms. Named for Bernhard Riemann, who proved an initial inequality, and Gustav Roch, who supplied the correction completing it to an equality, it is a central result linking a curve's topology to the algebraic functions living on it, later generalized to higher dimensions by Friedrich Hirzebruch and to a fully general form by Alexander Grothendieck.
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Initially proved as Riemann's inequality by Riemann (1857)
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mathematics, specifically in complex analysis and algebraic geometry, for the computation of the dimension of the space of meromor
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