Claire Voisin is a Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France

'This introductory text to Hodge theory and Kahlerian geometry is an excellent and modern introduction to the subject, shining with comprehensiveness, strictness, clarity, rigor, thematic steadfastness of purpose, and catching enthusiasm for this fascinating field of contemporary mathematical research. This book is exceedingly instructive, inspiring, challenging and user-friendly, which makes it truly outstanding and extremely valuable for students, teachers, and researchers in complex geometry.' Zentralblatt MATH

• Introduction; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Holomorphic functions of many variables; 2. Complex manifolds; 3. Kähler metrics; 4. Sheaves and cohomology; Part II. The Hodge Decomposition: 5. Harmonic forms and cohomology; 6. The case of Kähler manifolds; 7. Hodge structures and polarisations; 8. Holomorphic de Rham complexes and spectral sequences; Part III. Variations of Hodge Structure: 9. Families and deformations; 10. Variations of Hodge structure; Part IV. Cycles and Cycle Classes: 11. Hodge classes; 12. Deligne-Beilinson cohomology and the Abel-Jacobi map; Bibliography; Index.

Claire Voisin is a Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France

'This introductory text to Hodge theory and Kahlerian geometry is an excellent and modern introduction to the subject, shining with comprehensiveness, strictness, clarity, rigor, thematic steadfastness of purpose, and catching enthusiasm for this fascinating field of contemporary mathematical research. This book is exceedingly instructive, inspiring, challenging and user-friendly, which makes it truly outstanding and extremely valuable for students, teachers, and researchers in complex geometry.' Zentralblatt MATH

• Introduction; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Holomorphic functions of many variables; 2. Complex manifolds; 3. Kähler metrics; 4. Sheaves and cohomology; Part II. The Hodge Decomposition: 5. Harmonic forms and cohomology; 6. The case of Kähler manifolds; 7. Hodge structures and polarisations; 8. Holomorphic de Rham complexes and spectral sequences; Part III. Variations of Hodge Structure: 9. Families and deformations; 10. Variations of Hodge structure; Part IV. Cycles and Cycle Classes: 11. Hodge classes; 12. Deligne-Beilinson cohomology and the Abel-Jacobi map; Bibliography; Index.

Claire Voisin is a Professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France

'This introductory text to Hodge theory and Kahlerian geometry is an excellent and modern introduction to the subject, shining with comprehensiveness, strictness, clarity, rigor, thematic steadfastness of purpose, and catching enthusiasm for this fascinating field of contemporary mathematical research. This book is exceedingly instructive, inspiring, challenging and user-friendly, which makes it truly outstanding and extremely valuable for students, teachers, and researchers in complex geometry.' Zentralblatt MATH

• Introduction; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Holomorphic functions of many variables; 2. Complex manifolds; 3. Kähler metrics; 4. Sheaves and cohomology; Part II. The Hodge Decomposition: 5. Harmonic forms and cohomology; 6. The case of Kähler manifolds; 7. Hodge structures and polarisations; 8. Holomorphic de Rham complexes and spectral sequences; Part III. Variations of Hodge Structure: 9. Families and deformations; 10. Variations of Hodge structure; Part IV. Cycles and Cycle Classes: 11. Hodge classes; 12. Deligne-Beilinson cohomology and the Abel-Jacobi map; Bibliography; Index.