Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Monday 3/23

Went back to proving that Hilb dim = homogeneous Krull dim.

Projective geometry.
Points, lines, and conics in the projective plane.
The embedding of affine space in projective space.
The three types of conics all look the same in the projective plane;
it's just a question of how they intersect the line at infinity.

The homogenization of a polynomial using a new variable.