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HOMEWORK
Text Book:
Miles Reid, Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry,
London Mathematical Society, Student Texts 12,
Cambridge University Press, 1988. [QA564.R45]
Supplementary Texts:
Kenji UENO, An Introduction to Algebraic Geometry. [QA564.U3713]

Ernst KUNZ, Introduction to Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry. [QA251.3.K8613]
Schedule:
MON 10:40-12:30 SAZ 19
WED 9:40-10:30 SAZ 19
Exams and Grading:
Midterm 1: 20% -- Oct 10, 1998, Sat
Midterm 2: 20% -- Nov 14, 1998, Sat
Homeworks: 20%
Quizzes : 20%
Final: 20% -- Dec 16, 1998, Wed, 12:15 SAZ-19
Exams will be open book, open notes.
Attendance is required both by the dean's office and by the nature of the subject matter...
Syllabus:
[#1]  Sept  7       Plane Conics
[#2]  Sept 14       Cubics
[#3]  Sept 21       Genus
[#4]  Sept 27       Some Commutative Algebra
[#5]  Oct   5       Affine Varieties
[#6]  Oct  12       Hilbert Theorems
[#7]  Oct  19       Noether's Normalization
[#8]  Oct  26       Affine Morphisms
[#9]  Nov   2       Projective Varieties
[#10] Nov   9       Birational Equivalence
[#11] Nov  16       Tangent Spaces
[#12] Nov  23       Singularities
[#13] Nov  30       Resolution 
[#14] Dec   7       Lines on a Cubic