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  • Materials

    The textbook for this course is the latest version of THE RISING SEA - Foundations of Algebraic Geometry, by Ravi Vakil, available at

    http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/FOAGnov1817public.pdf

    (This is the version of November 18, 2017. Be aware that earlier versions might have a different numbering for the exercises, among other things.)

    The topics covered in this course are contained in Chapters 1--5 of the book.


    Additional material:

    For the necessary notions in commutative algebra, we recommend Introduction to Commutative Algebra, by Atiyah and MacDonald, available at

    http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~mathieu/CoursM2-2020/AMD-ComAlg.pdf

    The classical reference for algebraic geometry is Algebraic Geometry by Robin Hartshorne. Another good source of material is The geometry of Schemes by Eisenbud and Harris.

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