Notes for the Second Printing
Preface
Acknowledgments
Index of Notation
1 Affine Algebraic Varieties
1.1 Definition and Examples
1.2 The Zariski Topology
1.3 Morphisms of Affine Algebraic Varieties
1.4 Dimension
2 Algebraic Foundations
2.1 A Quick Review of Commutative Ring Theory
2.2 Hilbert's Basis Theorem
2.3 Hilbert's Nullstellensatz
2.4 The Coordinate Ring
2.5 The Equivalence of Algebra and Geometry
2.6 The Spectrum of a Ring
3 Projective Varieties
3.1 Projective Space
3.2 Projective Varieties
3.3 The Projective Closure of an Afine Variety
3.4 Morphisms of Projective Varieties
3.5 Automorphisms of Projective Space
4 Quasi-Projective Varieties
4.1 Quasi-Projective Varieties
4.2 A Basis for the Zariski Topology
4.3 Regular Functions
5 Classical Constructions
5.1 Veronese Maps
5.2 Five Points Determine a Conic
5.3 The Segre Map and Products of Varieties
5.4 Grassmannians
5.5 Degree
5.6 The Hilbert Function
6 Smoothness
6.1 The Tangent Space at a Point
6.2 Smooth Points
6.3 Smoothness in Families
6.4 Bertini's Theorem
6.5 The Gauss Mapping
7 Birational Geometry
7.1 Resolution of Singularities
7.2 Rational Maps
7.3 Birational Equivalence
7.4 Blowing Up Along an Ideal
7.5 Hypersurfaces
7.6 The Classification Problems
8 Maps to Projective Space
8.1 Embedding a Smooth Curve in Three-Space
8.2 Vector Bundles and Line Bundles
8.3 The Sections of a Vector Bundle
