Derek Garton (email and office: gartondw[at]pdx.edu and Fariborz Maseeh Hall (FMH) 468M).
Fariborz Maseeh Hall (FMH) 419, TuTh, 12:00pm–1:15pm.
Tuesdays 11am, Wednesdays 1pm, or by appointment.
William Fulton, Algebraic curves: An introduction to algebraic geometry.
At the end of this course, you should be able to use commutative rings to understand curves and compute invariants of curves.
I hope this course will be joyful and interesting to everybody.
It will be challenging and we will support each other.
Please be prepared to take an active, critical, patient, and generous role in your own learning and that of your classmates.
The course schedule records the material we cover in the text and the homework assignments.
Engaging with the homework is essential, and it will likely require a substantial amount of time and effort. Working on the exercises with classmates is an excellent way to enhance your learning, but write your solutions up yourself. Please try not to look on the internet for answers: struggling with the problems on your own (with the help of the text, your classmates, and the instructor) is part of the learning process. Since everybody has a hard week now and again, I will drop your lowest HW grade.
Portland State has kindly provided a discussion group for this course.
Feel free to use them to talk about math.
These discussion groups serve the role of an email list for the class.
Therefore, you must be a member.
The required statement on access and inclusion for students with disabilities is on the bottom right of the linked page.
Here is the required statement on Title IX reporting obligations.
Here is the required statement about the SHAC.