MAS345: Algebraic Geometry of Curves

Timetable

Lectures are on Mondays and Thursdays at 3pm in M503, Merz Court. Tutorials take place in even weeks: details are given at the end of this page. Assignments are handed in by 5pm on Mondays in odd weeks: details at the end of the page.

The Oracle Cluster (Merz Court) is booked for MAS345 on Thursdays from 2-3 and 4-5 pm throughout the second semester.

Course Material

Course materials are in PDF format for viewing and in Postscript format for printing.

Notes PDF - PostScript
Homework
- Exercises PDF - PostScript
- Solutions Postscript - PostScript 2up
- Help for Question 5.5
Slides
- Pictures of curves as shown in Lecture 1
- Slides corresponding to notes
Maple worksheets (you can save these work sheets and then open them in Maple: right click to save).
- Lissajou Curves as shown in Lecture 1
- Polynomial algebra: this may help with Exercises 2
Errata PDF - PostScript

The Exam

Past exam papers are put on the web by the university: enter MAS345 in "Module Code" and then "Go".
Mock Exam PDF - PostScript

Places of Interest

Geometry Formulas and Facts follow the links in Sections 7 and 8
MacTutor follow the link to the "Famous Curves Index"
Surf a graph and surface drawing programme
ChronoMath there are some nice pictures here: the french for curve is courbe - try searching
Visualization of complex curves
Bezout's Theorem which you'll meet in due course
Laboratorio di Macchine Matematiche contains some wonderful animations of machines for drawing curves: simulazione in Italian
Module description
Class list
School home page
Handbook
UCS Documentation

Tutorial Times

All tutorials take place on Mondays in even weeks from 1-2 in M413a and 2-3 in M413b.

Dates of Tutorials are:

 
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Week    Date
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2      Monday, 29th September
4      Monday, 13th October
6      Monday, 27th October
8      Monday, 10th November
10     Monday, 24th November

Assignments

Assignments are to be handed in by 5pm on Mondays of even weeks. The questions to be handed in and their deadlines (subject to later adjustment) are:

 
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 Hand in by 5pm on          Questions
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Monday, 6th October       1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 
                          2.1 (c), 2.3,2.4, 2.5, 
                          2.7
Monday, 20th October      2.8, 2.9(c), 3.1,  3.2  3.3(a),(b)
Monday, 3rd  November     3.5(a),(b),(c),
                          3.6 parts corresponding 
                          to 3.5 (a),(b),(c),4.1, 4.3
Monday, 17th November     4.4, 4.7, 4.9, 5.2
                          5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
Monday, 1st  December     5.9, 5.11, 5.12, 6.3, 7.1

Andrew Duncan

Last modified: Tue Nov 18 18:09:57 GMT 2003