Lectures
- Monday, 17:00-18:00, HXLY 139.
- Tuesday, 17:00-18:00, HXLY 130.
- Thursday, 11:00-12:00, HXLY 140.
- Office hour: Monday, 16:00-17:00, HXLY 675.
Problem sheets
Suggested course reading
- Cox, Little, and O’Shea, Ideals, varieties, and algorithms, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, 2007.
Available as an e-book via the library.
- Hal Schenck, Computational algebraic geometry, London Mathematical Society Student Texts, 58, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Available from the library.
- Kreuzer and Robbiano, Computational commutative algebra, 1 and 2, Springer-Verlag, 2000.
The library has book 2 available as an e-book.
- Bernd Sturmfels has made his CBMS lecture notes "Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations" available.
- You might enjoy reading the November 2005 AMS article "What is ... a Gröbner basis?", also by Sturmfels.
Computational algebra packages
Here are links to some free commutative algebra packages which you may wish to install on your own computer:
Extended essay
If any fourth-year students are interested in doing an extended essay, here are some possible topics. Please come and see me so that we can discuss problems that might interest you.