Here’s an index of all of the AG from the Beginning articles. I reordered a little bit for coherent topics, and don’t THINK that I screwed up any dependencies (ie, anything should be understood in terms of things higher up on the page than it), but if I did, let me know and I’ll fix it.
Basic Set Up
- Affine Varieties
- Projective Varieties
- Some Commutative Algebra and a bit of Geometry
- Morphisms of Varieties
- Algebraic Groups
- Varieties over other Fields
Projective Geometry
- Gradings on Rings and Modules
- Hilbert Polynomials
- Bezout’s Theorem
- Elliptic Curves
- Veronese Embedding
- Segre Embedding
- Grassmannians and Flag Varieties
Intrinsic Geometry
- Tangent Spaces and Singular Points
- Localization
- Nakayama’s Lemma
- Sheaves
- Morphisms of Sheaves
- Locally Ringed Spaces
- Abstract Varieties
- Complete Varieties and Chow’s Lemma
Computational Geometry
- Groebner Bases and Buchberger’s Algorithm
- Elimination and Extension Theorems
- Resultants
- Computing Hilbert Functions
- Projective Elimination Theory
Relative Geometry
- Sheaves of Modules
- Locally Free Sheaves and Vector Bundles
- Line Bundles and the Picard Group
- Differential Forms and the Canonical Bundle
Linear Systems
Abstract Algebraic Geometry
Cohomology
Curves
- Riemann-Roch Theorem for Curves
- Hurwitz’s Theorem
- Hurwitz’s Theorem on Automorphisms
- Dual Curves
- Plücker Formulas
- Canonical Linear Systems
- Geometric Form of Riemann-Roch
- Constructing Nodal Curves
Schubert Calculus
- Grassmannians Redux
- Schubert Varieties
- Schubert Classes and Cellular Cohomology
- Pieri and Giambelli Formulas
- Applications of the Schubert Calculus
Resolution of Singularities
Hilbert Schemes
- Flat Modules and Morphisms
- Representability of Functors
- Moduli Spaces and Base Change
- The Hilbert Scheme
- Constructing the Hilbert Scheme II
- Flattening Stratifications
- Examples of Moduli Spaces
Matt’s Series on Group Schemes and Moduli
- Group Schemes and Moduli I
- Group Schemes and Moduli II
- Group Schemes and Moduli III
- Group Schemes and Moduli IV
Matt’s Post on Rational Varieties
Matt’s Series on Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch
October 24, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I asked for :-)
Now I’m happy, learning your stuff.
January 28, 2010 at 1:06 pm
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November 1, 2010 at 10:47 pm
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November 5, 2010 at 3:51 pm
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December 22, 2010 at 12:28 pm
[...] There are two good resourses that I can follow: the first one is the CRing Project, which is organizing the materials of Commutative Algebra. The other is the posts witten by Professor Ravi Vakil on the Foundations of Algebraic Geometry. These two are really very helpful for me to follow to learn AG. Another one I want to mention is also a blog AG from the Beginning. [...]
October 25, 2012 at 11:25 pm
This is rather nice and useful. Well done!