IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute
Preface
Algebraic Geometry
Overview
Problem Book
History of the Book
Other Texts
An Aside on Notation
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.Conics
1.1.Conics over the Reals
1.2.Changes of Coordinates
1.3.Conics over the Complex Numbers
1.4.The Complex Projective Plane P2
1.5.Projective Changes of Coordinates
1.6.The Complex Projective Line p1
1.7.Ellipses, Hyperbolas, and Parabolas as Spheres
1.8.Links to Number Theory
1.9.Degenerate Conics
1.10.Tangents and Singular Points
1.11.Conics via Linear Algebra
1.12.Duality
Chapter 2.Cubic Curves and Elliptic Curves
2.1.Cubics in C2
2.2.Inflection Points
2.3.Group Law
2.4.Normal Forms of Cubics
2.5.The Group Law for a Smooth Cubic in Canonical Form
2.6.Cross-Ratios and the j-Invariant
2.7.Torus as C/A
2.8.Mapping C/A to a Cubic
2.9.Cubics as Tori
Chapter 3.Higher Degree Curves
3.1.Higher Degree Polynomials and Curves
3.2.Higher Degree Curves as Surfaces
3.3.Bézout's Theorem
3.4.The Ring of Regular Functions and Function Fields
3.5.Divisors
3.6.The Riemann-Roch Theorem
3.7.Blowing Up
Chapter 4.Affine Varieties uM znl
4.1.Zero Sets of Polynomials
4.2.Algebraic Sets and Ideals
4.3.Hilbert Basis Theorem
4.4.The Strong Nullstellensatz
4.5.The Weak Nullstellensatz
4.6.Points in Affine Space as Maximal Ideals
4.7.Affine Varieties and Prime Ideals
4.8.Regular Functions and the Coordinate Ring
4.9.Subvarieties