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| | American Mathematical Monthly, The: An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry |
 | | A list of worthwhile topics to know before undertaking the study of algebraic geometry could include commutative algebra, complex analysis, algebraic and differential topology, number theory, elliptic operator theory, K-theory, differential geometry, category theory, Lie groups and representation theory, several complex variables, and lattice polyhedra, with the recent essential addition of elementary particle theory. |
 | | The algebraic/transcendental dichotomy is another form of the basic divide as to whether, for pedagogical purposes, one wants to consider algebraic geometry as a natural continuation of commutative algebra or of complex analysis, that is, whether a prospective student should go through the algebraic or the analytic/geometric "door" to the subject. |
 | | For algebraic curves, this question takes the form of whether to set as a goal the Riemann-Roch theorem (an algebraic result, though originally proved analytically) and the results I mentioned earlier that attracted me to the subject, or whether to incorporate the Abel-Jacobi theorem and perhaps the geometry of the On -divisor. |
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