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Named by Nagata (1962) after Oscar Zariski and Bernhard Riemann.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zariski-Riemann space
Today it means: A locally ringed space of a subring k of a field K, whose points are valuation rings containing k and contained in K. They generalize the Riemann surface of a complex curve. Full definition →