M@’s Algebraic Geometry Notes#

Hi all, this site contains some notes that I’ve written up while going through Leonard Dickson’s 1926 text titled “Modern Algebraic Theories” [Dic26].

The notes were prepared using JupyterBook, in part to demonstrate how inline calculations can be included with the main text, so that the claims being made are readily verified. So, throughout these notes, the reader will find code snippets which either make use of the Python-based computer algebra library SymPy to demonstrate/check the claims being made, or generate a plot using matplotlib. If the reader wishes to run these notebooks themselves, the source code for this website can be found here.

The motivation to write these notes came originally from reading the AMS note by Bruce Bartlett [Bar24], which discusses the connection between quintics, icosahedral symmetry, and elliptic curves.