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This paper is a slightly revised version of the notes prepared in connection with the AMS Colloquium Lectures delivered in New Orleans, January 2001.
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  • János Kollár
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1000
  • MR Author ID: 104280
  • Email: kollar@math.princeton.edu
  • Received by editor(s): February 7, 2001
  • Published electronically: June 12, 2001
  • © Copyright 2001 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 409-433
  • MSC (2000): Primary 14-01, 14E08, 14E30, 14G05, 14J26, 14P25; Secondary 11D25, 11G35, 30F10, 57N10
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00917-X
  • MathSciNet review: 1848255