Math 322

Computational Algebraic Geometry

General Information Schedule Homework

Schedule

The following is a sketch of the topics covered in each class.

Class Number Date Sections in Book Brief Description
1 Friday, 4/2 1.1 - 1.3 Course Overview, Polynomial Rings, Affine Varieties
2 Monday, 4/5 1.4 - 2.1 Ideals, Division with Remainder in F[x], The Maps V and I
3 Wednesday, 4/7 2.2 - 2.3 Monomial Orderings, Division with Remainder in k[x_1,...,x_n]
4 Friday, 4/9 2.4 - 2.5 Monomial Ideals, Dickson's Lemma, Hilbert Basis Theorem
5 Monday, 4/12 2.5 - 2.6 Noetherian Rings, Gröbner Bases
6 Wednesday, 4/14 2.7 - 2.8 Computing Gröbner Bases, Reduced Gröbner Bases, Applications
7 Friday, 4/16 2.9, 3.1 - 3.2 The Elimination and Extension Theorems
8 Monday, 4/19 3.2 - 3.3 The Closure Theorem, Implicitization
9 Wednesday, 4/21 3.4 - 3.5 Singular Points, Proof of the Extension Theorem
10 Friday, 4/23 4.1 Weak Nullstellensatz
11 Monday, 4/26 4.1 - 4.2 Strong Nullstellensatz, UFDs and GCDs
12 Wednesday, 4/28 4.3 - 4.4 Operations on Ideals and Varieties
13 Friday, 4/30 4.4 - 4.5 Colon, Prime, and Maximal Ideals in Polynomial Rings
14 Monday, 5/3 4.6, 4.8 Decomposing Varieties and Ideals
15 Wednesday, 5/5 5.1 - 5.2 Polynomial Mappings, Quotients of Polynomial Rings
16 Friday, 5/7 5.3 Computing in Quotients, Vector Spaces and Algebras
17 Monday, 5/10 5.3 Varieties and Quotients of Polynomial Rings
18 Wednesday, 5/12 5.4 The Coordinate Ring of a Variety, Isomorphic Varieties
19 Friday, 5/14 5.4 The Coordinate Ring of a Variety, Isomorphic Varieties, Part 2
20 Monday, 5/17 5.5 Rational Functions between Varieties, Function Fields
21 Wednesday, 5/19 - Algebra and Computability