Recent advances in real algebraic geometry and quadratic forms : proceedings of the RAGSQUAD year, Berkeley, 19901991 - Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c1994 - 1 online resource (viii, 405 p. : ill.) - Contemporary mathematics v. 155 10983627 .

Papers resulting from a course held at the University of California at Berkeley, 199091 and the AMS Special Session on Real Algebraic Geometry and Quadratic Forms held in San Francisco, Jan. 1991, both comprising the special year dubbed RAGSQUAD.

Includes bibliographical references.

D. W. Dubois and the pioneer days of real algebraic geometry ; On algebraic structures of manifolds ; On local uniformization of orderings ; Real algebraic geometry over heory ; An application of the theory of order completions ; Growth of the eal closed fields ; On the reduction of semialgebraic sets by real valuations ; Orderings for noncommutative rings ; Nonexistence of analytically varying solutions to Hilbert's 17th problem ; A combinatorial geometric structure on the space of orders of a field. II ; Formal determination of polynomial consequences of real orthogonal matrices ; On valuation spectra ; Minimal generation of basic sets in the real spectrum of a commutative ring ; A new proof of the homogeneous Nullstellensatz for

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