geometry and analytic geometry. Nevertheless, the two fields remain distinct, as the methods of proof are quite different and algebraic geometry includes also geometry in finite characteristic. Applications Algebraic geometry now finds applications in statistics, control theory, robotics, error-correcting codes, phylogenetics and geometric modelling. There are also connections to string theory, game theory, graph matchings, solitons and integer programming. See also Glossary of classical algebraic geometry Important publications in algebraic geometry List of algebraic surfaces Noncommutative algebraic geometry Notes References Sources Further reading Some classic textbooks that predate schemes Modern textbooks that do not use the language of schemes Textbooks in computational algebraic geometry Textbooks and references for schemes External links Foundations of Algebraic Geometry by Ravi Vakil, 808 pp. Algebraic geometry entry on PlanetMath English translation of the van der Waerden textbook The Stacks Project, an open source textbook and reference work on algebraic stacks and algebraic geometry Fields of mathematics