Topics
in Algebraic Geometry - Math 722
Fall
2012
Instructor: Prof. Eyal
Goren
Ofiice: 1108
Office hours: Wednesday 11:00 -
12:00, and by appointment (eyal.goren@mcgill.you-know-where).
Lectures: BURN 1214, M
09:05 - 10:55 and W 09:05-10:55 (the additional hour per week is
to off-set cancellation of classes occurring during the term)
Syllabus - to be found here.
Notes - to be found here.
Method of Evaluation:
30% final project, 70% assignments. Assignments should be typed
in LaTeX and submitted electronically as a pdf file.
Assignments
Text books:
* Hartshorne, Robin: Algebraic geometry. Graduate Texts
in Mathematics, No. 52. Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg,
1977.
* Harris, Joe Algebraic geometry. A first course. Corrected
reprint of the 1992 original. Graduate Texts in Mathematics,
133. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995.
* Mumford, David: The red book of varieties and schemes.
Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1358. Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
1988.
* Shafarevich, Igor R., Basic algebraic geometry. 1.
Varieties in projective space. Second edition. Translated from
the 1988 Russian edition and with notes by Miles Reid.
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994.
* Shafarevich, Igor R. Basic algebraic geometry. 2. Schemes and
complex manifolds. Second edition. Translated from the 1988
Russian edition by Miles Reid. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994.
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of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see
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Submitting work: In
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students in this course have the right to submit in English or
in French any written work that is to be graded.
Syllabus and Grade Calculation:
In the event of extraordinary circumstances beyond the
University’s control, the content and/or evaluation scheme in
this course is subject to change.