Math 137 (Algebraic Geometry)
Spring 2021
Classes: Wednesdays 1:30pm - 2:45pm and Fridays noon - 1:15pm
Sections: Thursdays 4:30pm - 5:30pm every other week, starting February 5
Instructor: Fabian Gundlach (LASTNAME@math.harvard.edu), office hours Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00am - 11:00am or by appointment
Course assistant: Kenz Kallal (FIRSTNAMELASTNAME@college.harvard.edu), office hours Thursdays 3pm - 4pm
Please contact me with any questions.
You should have received the final take-home exam by email. It will be due at 6pm on Friday, May 7. For the exam, you may consult the notes for this class (both those written by you and those you can download below), the class recordings, problem sets, and your solutions to problem sets (including any remarks from the grader). You're not allowed to consult any other references. You may discuss the exam problems only with the instructor (Fabian).
Zoom
Everything will take place via Zoom. The meeting id for the classes and Fabian's office hours is 943-9619-0584.
The password is the product of the six smallest prime numbers.
For the meeting id for sections and Kenz's office hours, contact Kenz.
Homework
- Problem set 1, due February 8 at noon (replaced \((n+1)m\) by \(n+1\) in problem 1d)
- Problem set 2, due February 19 at noon
- Problem set 3, due February 26 at noon
- Problem set 4, due March 5 at noon
- Problem set 5, due March 12 at noon
- Problem set 6, due March 19 at noon (added the word "irreducible" in problem 6)
- Problem set 7, due March 26 at noon (\(T\) consists of polynomials of degree at most \(d\) in problem 4)
- Problem set 8, due April 5 at noon (Problem 4 is about the Zariski closure of the join)
- Problem set 9, due April 16 at noon
- Problem set 10, due April 23 at noon (bonus if you show there is an irreducible curve in problem 3)
- Problem set 11, due April 30 at noon