Algebraic Geometry

Spring Semester 2016. Tue-Th 11-12:15. RLM 10.176.

Tuesdays 2-3:30 and by appointment, in RLM 10.168; possibly other times by popular demand. Students are encouraged to come to office hours!

Arun Debray is live-texing some awesome notes, available here

Homework Assignments:

All assignments refer to Vakil, December 2015 version.

Week 1:
1.2.D (p.30),1.3.C,1.3.D (p.32), 1.3.E, 1.3.F (p.33), 1.4.A-E (starting p.41)
Week 2:
1.3 G,H,J,K,L,U,Y 1.5 E,H
Week 3:
3.2.E,G,H,K,L,O,P,R,S
Week 4:
3.4.E,F,H,K,3.5B, 3.6B,J,K,R,S
Week 5:
2.2 G,H,I 2.3 C,E,I 2.4 A,D,N
Week 6:
4.1 A, D 4.3 A 6.2 A,C,D
Week 7:
No homework this week
Week n:
Some suggested problems: 2.2.J, 13.1.B,C,D,E, 2.5.J, 4.1.D, 21.2.D, 5.3.G,H,7.3.H,K,Q, 8.1.H,6.3.A,9.1.E

Basic commutative algebra.

The course is an introduction to scheme theory and the algebro-geometric way of life.

There will be homework (a roughly weekly problem set) accounting for %100 of the grade.