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I highly recommend this over Hartshorne: http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/ http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/ In particular note Ravi Vakil's 500
by impendia 16y ago
I highly recommend this over Hartshorne:
http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/ http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/
In particular note Ravi Vakil's 500+ page book-in-progress on algebraic geometry, as well as a blog -- he is constantly soliciting and incorporating advice from people who are reading the book. (Remind you of any advice you see often on HN?)
- robertk 16y agoI just had a nerdgasm. This is gold. I can be reading one book in one place, instead of having Dummit and Foote, Atiyah and MacDonald, and the more example-laden Geometry of Schemes lying next to me. Thank you.
- slackenerny 16y agoAlso, it is prof. Vakil who hosts the MathOverflow site you surely heard of. Literature recommendations are sometimes also discussed. http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2446/best-algebraic-geometry-text-book-other-than-hartshorne http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2446/best-algebraic-geomet... http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3041/the-importance-of-ega-and-sga-for-students-of-today http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3041/the-importance-of-ega...
- Groxx 16y agoWait, what? The TOC is hyperlinked to the headings in the document? I never knew you could do that in a textbook! Years and years and crappy PDF after crappy scanned PDF of technical books with zero linking (or only external urls!) and I find out someone actually does this? There's no way they're a teacher. None. You cannot do this in the education system. There's a law against it, or something. Maybe they're on the run, a renegade teacher, like the professor-version of Archibald Tuttle.
- impendia 16y agoGet tenure at Stanford and you can do as you damn well please.
- juiceandjuice 16y agoI'm confused... are you being sarcastic, or have you never heard of LaTeX?
- Groxx 16y ago</sarcasm> Fully aware of LaTeX. Also fully aware a lot of book creators use things like LaTeX and Adobe to build their books and form their footnotes and keep their TOC / index / internal page references accurate. I'm also painfully aware that tons of books, textbooks particularly frequently, don't use the information they built the book with to build the digital version, so it becomes a glorified scan that you can download and read, and nothing more.
- juiceandjuice 16y agogotcha, your post was filled with so much genuine enthusiasm that I was confused :)