A Royal Road to Algebraic Geometry

By Audun Holme

Book Overview

Part I Curves: 1 Affine and Projective Space.- 2 Curves in A2 k and in P2.- 3 Higher Geometry in the Projective Plane.- 4 Plane Curves and Algebra.- 5 Projective Varieties in PNk.- Part II Introduction to Grothendieck's Theory of Schemes: 6 Categories and Functors.- 7 Constructions and Representable Functors.- 8 Abelian Categories.- 9 The Concept of Spec(A).- 10 The Category of Schemes.- 11 Properties of Morphisms of Schemes.- 12 Modules, Algebras and Bundles on a Scheme.- 13 More Properties of Morphisms, Scheme Theoretic Image and the "Sorite".- 14 Projective Schemes and Bundles.- 15 Further Properties of Morphisms.- 16 Conormal Sheaf and Projective Bundles.- 17 Cohomology Theory on Schemes.- 18 Intersection Theory.- 19 Characteristic Classes in Algebraic Geometry.- 20 The Riemann-Roch Theorem.- 21 Some Basic constructions in the category of projective kvarieties.- 22 More on Duality.- References.- Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642429211
• ISBN13: 9783642429217
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"