Math 553

Algebraic Geometry II, (Call: 28300)

11:00 AM  MWF 310 AH

 

Instructor: Henri Gillet
Office: 405 SEO
Office Hours: M,W 2-3, W 10-10:50  (Tentative: These will probably change)
phone: (312) 413-2157
e-mail: gillet@uic.edu

 

 

This course will cover sheaves and schemes.  (Roughly speaking chapters 2 and 3 of Hartshorne).

 

There is no required text for the course.  However, the following books will be useful reading:

·         "Algebraic Geometry" (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) by Robin Hartshorne

·         "The Geometry of Schemes"  by David Eisenbud and Joe Harris, Springer (Available through Springer online)

·         “Algebraic Geometry and arithmetic curves” by Liu, Oxford U.P.

 

You may also find background material in:

·        "Sheaves in Geometry and Logic: a first introduction to topos theory." S. Mac Lane and Moerdjik. Springer, 1992

·        “Categories for the working mathematician” by Saunders MacLane, Springer

·        "The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes (Lecture Notes in Mathematics) " by David Mumford (Available through Springer online)

·        The section on Category theory in Lang’s “Algebra”

 

Weekly homework problems will be assigned, and your grade will be based on them. 

 

Homework assignments (pdf file)

 

Homework due Feb 23

 

Homework Due March 16