Enumerative geometry

See also: Intersection theory

In mathematics, enumerative geometry is the branch of algebraic geometry concerned with counting numbers of solutions to geometric questions, mainly by means of intersection theory.

While mathematicians mostly lost interest in the field, popular with the Ancient Greeks and afterward, in the mid-1900s, it has experienced a recent reawakening as methods have been discovered to apply motivic homotopy theory to the problems.

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