## MATH70061 - Commutative Algebra

• Office: 6.25 Huxley
• Office hours: Wednesday 1-2 (except on 12 Oct. the office hour is between 12-1)
• Lecture times and place : Monday 11-12 Huxley 140, Wednesday 11-12 Huxley 642, Friday 11-12 Huxley 140. (First lecture on Friday 7 Oct.).
• References: These are some of the books that I will be drawing from for the lectures
• Miles Reid - Undergraduate Commutative Algebra
• David A. Cox, John Little, Donal O'Shea - Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms
• M. F. Atiyah, I. G. MacDonald - Introduction to Commutative Algebra
• To receive the announcements related to the course, please send me an e-mail if you are going to continue with this course.

### Lecture notes

Here are the lecture notes. They are mostly taken from the above references. I will be updating these as we go along.

### Homework

There will be 5 problem sets which will be posted here biweekly.
There will be N problems in each problem set, I will choose 2 random ones using the Macaulay 2 code  random(N)+1  and grade those ones.