The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry Notes
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The Stanford math department shares comprehensive notes on algebraic geometry, sparking discussion on the prerequisites and accessibility of the material.
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For the easily intimidated, here are smaller introductions:
https://www.math.purdue.edu/~arapura/graph/algcurve.html
https://www.math.purdue.edu/~arapura/preprints/algeom.pdf
A module is the "same" thing as a vector space (that we all know and love), except the underlying scalars are ring, instead of field (i.e. no division, e.g. integers). So it's like linear algebra when your scalars are stuff like integers or polynomials.
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