%0 Journal Article %A Coste, M. %A Ruiz Sancho, Jesús María %A Shiota, Masahiro %T Global problems on Nash functions %D 2004 %@ 1988-2807 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50596 %X This is a survey on the history of and the solutions to the basic global problems on Nash functions, which have been only recently solved, namely: separation, extension, global equations, Artin-Mazur description and idempotency, alsonoetherianness. We discuss all of them in the various possible contexts, from manifolds over the reals to real spectra of arbitrary commutative rings. %~