MATH 7670: Algebraic Geometry (Fall 2011)

Instructor: Allen Knutson

Course Web Site: www.math.cornell.edu/~allenk/courses/11fall/7670/

This class will be taking a somewhat classical point of view on algebraic geometry as being about subsets of affine or projective space over the complex numbers, defined by vanishing of polynomials, introducing the (three essentially separate) generalizations to schemes only as motivated by examples.

We'll be following Ravi Vakil's book, Foundations Of Algebraic Geometry.