The contributions making up this volume are expanded versions of the courses given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School on the Theory of Moduli.

Books about Theory of moduli

The word 'moduli' in the sense of this book first appeared in the epoch-making paper of B. Riemann, Theorie der Abel'schen Funktionen, published in 1857. Riemann defined a Riemann surface of an algebraic function field as a branched covering of a one-dimensional complex projective space, and found out that Riemann

Books about Witten's intersection theory of moduli spaces of curves (after Kontsevich)

Books about Moduli Theory and Classification Theory of Algebraic Varieties