Preface | p. iii |
Notation | p. xiii |
Affine Algebraic Sets and the Nullstellensatz | p. 1 |
Polynomials and Affine Space | p. 1 |
Affine Algebraic Sets | p. 9 |
Parametrizations of Algebraic Sets | p. 11 |
Ideals for Algebraic Sets | p. 21 |
Hilbert's Nullstellensatz | p. 22 |
Radical Ideals and the Nullstellensatz | p. 27 |
Polynomial and Rational Functions | p. 33 |
The Zariski Topology and Irreducible Algebraic Sets | p. 34 |
Decomposition of an Algebraic Set | p. 40 |
Polynomial Mappings and Polynomial Functions | p. 43 |
The Coordinate Ring of an Algebraic Set | p. 48 |
Affine Change of Coordinates | p. 56 |
Rational Functions and Local Rings | p. 58 |
Projective Algebraic Sets | p. 69 |
Projective Space | p. 71 |
The Projective Algebra-Geometry Dictionary | p. 78 |
Homogeneous Coordinate Ring and Function Field | p. 82 |
Projective Change of Coordinates | p. 85 |
Dehomogenization and Homogenization of Polynomials | p. 90 |
Affine-Projective Transfer of Algebraic Sets | p. 95 |
Multiprojective Space and Segre Product | p. 106 |
Groebner Basis | p. 111 |
Monomial Orderings | p. 111 |
A Division Algorithm in k[x[subscript 1], ..., x[subscript n]] | p. 120 |
Monomial Ideals and Dickson's Lemma | p. 128 |
Hilbert Basis Theorem and Groebner Basis | p. 133 |
Applications to Previous Chapters | p. 139 |
Dimension of Algebraic Sets | p. 147 |
The Algebraic Set of a Monomial Ideal | p. 150 |
The Vector Space k[x[subscript 1], ..., x[subscript n]]/I | p. 155 |
Hilbert Function and dimV | p. 159 |
The Dimension of a Projective Algebraic Set | p. 173 |
Elementary Properties of Dimension | p. 179 |
Dimension and Algebraic Independence | p. 186 |
Dimension and Elimination of Variables | p. 192 |
The Krull Dimension of an Affine k-Algebra | p. 200 |
The Topological Dimension of an Affine Algebraic Set | p. 205 |
An Introduction to Local Theory | p. 207 |
Regular Functions on Quasi-Varieties | p. 209 |
Morphisms | p. 215 |
Rational Maps | p. 225 |
Examples of Rational Varieties | p. 233 |
An Algorithm Checking the Birationality of Rational Maps | p. 238 |
Nonsingular Points in Algebraic Sets | p. 240 |
Curves | p. 253 |
Nonsingular Curves | p. 253 |
Intersection of Curves | p. 265 |
Bezout's Theorem | p. 277 |
Divisors on Curves | p. 283 |
The Linear Space L(D) | p. 290 |
The Riemann-Roch Theorem | p. 297 |
Elliptic Curves | p. 307 |
Standard Equation for Nonsingular Cubic Curve | p. 308 |
Addition on an Elliptic Curve | p. 315 |
Elliptic Functions and Weierstrass Theory | p. 327 |
Finiteness Conditions and Field Extensions | p. 343 |
Modules, Finiteness Conditions | p. 343 |
Integral Elements | p. 346 |
Ring-finite Field Extensions | p. 348 |
Existence of a Primitive Element | p. 350 |
Localization, Discrete Valuation Rings and Dedekind Domains | p. 355 |
Localization at a Multiplicative Subset | p. 355 |
Discrete Valuation Rings | p. 357 |
Dedekind Domains | p. 361 |
References | p. 365 |
Index | p. 367 |
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |