Syllabus

  1. (Pre-)sheaves; sheaves of modules over topological spaces.
  2. Spectrum of a ring; stalks; coordinate rings; dimension.
  3. Schemes; gluing; reduced and integral schemes.
  4. Products; separated and proper schemes.
  5. Projective morphisms; flat morphisms; birational maps.
  6. Coherent sheaves and vector bundles; divisors and line bundles.
  7. Sheaf cohomology; derived push-forward and pull-back; base change.
  8. Serre duality theorem; semicontinuity theorems.
  9. Functor of points; group schemes; Hilbert schemes.
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