MA 3G6 Schedule Term 2 2016


The following is an outline of the course, which will be updated as the course progresses. Guides to the topic we will cover in any given week are only approximate, and these will probably change as the term progresses.

CLO is Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms by Cox, Little, O'Shea.
Reid is Undergraduate Commutative Algebra by Reid.

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Week (date of Monday) Topics Sections Homework Event
1 11/1 Introduction, Gröbner bases CLO Chapter 2 HW 1 First class Monday
2 18/1 More Gröbner bases CLO Chapter 2
3 25/1 Prime ideal, maximal ideals Reid Chapter 1. HW 2 HW 1 due Tuesday
4 1/2 Localization Reid, Chapter 6
5 8/2 Modules, Cayley-Hamilton, Nakayama Reid, Chapter 2 HW 3 HW 2 due Tuesday
Support class in B3.02 this week.
6 15/2 Integral closure Reid, Chapter 4
7 22/2 Varieties, Nullstellensatz CLO Chapters 1, 4,
Reid, Chapter 5
HW 4 HW 3 due Tuesday
8 29/2 Nullstellensatz, Primary decomposition Reid, Chapter 7
CLO Section 4.7
HW 5
9 7/3 More primary decomposition Reid, Chapter 7
CLO Section 4.7
HW 4 due Tuesday
10 14/3 Dimension, valuations, DVRs Reid, Chapter 8 HW 6 (not to hand in) HW 5 due Thursday