Comment Comment by johncarlosbaez You need to go more slowly and do lots of examples. Maybe start with* Karen E. Smith, Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen and William Traves, An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry, Springer, Berlin, 2004.and then this:* Igor R. Shafarevich, Basic Algebraic Geometry, two volumes, third edition, Springer, 2013. parent johncarlosbaez 1 year ago
* Karen E. Smith, Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen and William Traves, An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry, Springer, Berlin, 2004.
and then this:
* Igor R. Shafarevich, Basic Algebraic Geometry, two volumes, third edition, Springer, 2013.