Resolution of Curve and Surface Singularities in Characteristic Zero

The Curves The Point of View of Max Noether Probably the oldest references to the problem of resolution of singularities are found in Max Noether''s works on plane curves [cf. [148], [149]]. And probably the origin of the problem was to have a formula to compute the genus of a plane curve. The genus is the most useful birational invariant of a curve in classical projective geometry. It was long kn...