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Resources

• Texts:
  • (main) Cox, Little, O'Shea, ``Using algebraic geometry'', Springer GTM, 1998.
  • Cox, Little, O'Shea, ``Ideals, varieties, and algorithms'', Springer UTM, 1997.
  • Eisenbud, ``Commutative Algebra with a view toward algebraic geometry'', Springer GTM, 1995.
  • Edited by Eisenbud, Grayson, Stillman and Sturmfels, ``Computations in algebraic geometry with Macaulay 2'', Springer, ``Algorithms and Computations in Mathematics'' #8, 2001
  • Greuel, Pfister, ``A SINGULAR Introduction to Commutative Algebra'', Springer, 2002.

• Links:
  • Macaulay 2
  • Maple
  • commalg.org -- Commutative Algebra portal
  • Basic Algebraic Geometry -- collection of lecture notes
  • John Little's webpage -- "work in progress" on the 2nd edition of the textbook
  • "emacs for dummies"
  • Introduction to Singular