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The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry Notes
- gowld 1y agoWhat makes this 850 page document "notes"? How large would a non-"notes" version be? For the easily intimidated, here are smaller introductions: https://www.math.purdue.edu/~arapura/graph/algcurve.html https://www.math.purdue.edu/~arapura/graph/algcurve.html https://www.math.purdue.edu/~arapura/preprints/algeom.pdf https://www.math.purdue.edu/~arapura/preprints/algeom.pdf
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- mahalex 1y ago“Notes” is short for “lecture notes” and has nothing to do with size.
- madcaptenor 1y agoThe current version is more "textbook" than "notes", but like many textbooks it originated as lecture notes because no sane person would sit down and write a textbook.
- dhampi 1y agoFOAG is probably the shortest readable introduction to serious algebraic geometry anyone has written. That's the nature of algebraic geometry.
- hackandthink 1y agoCHAPTER 27 The twenty-seven lines on a cubic surface "You are now ready to be initiated into the secret fellowship of the twenty-seven lines."
- monkeyelite 1y agoGotta understand abstract algebra and probably topology first.
- gnulinux 1y agoActually slightly more than that. A college level abstract algebra class is unlikely to cover much of commutative algebra. You'll want to know a fair amount of Module Theory for this book. Reading through the classic Atiyah MacDonald book should be more than enough. A module is the "same" thing as a vector space (that we all know and love), except the underlying scalars are ring, instead of field (i.e. no division, e.g. integers). So it's like linear algebra when your scalars are stuff like integers or polynomials.