About me

Hello, my name is Jasmin and this is my blog. I'm interested in reading, math (specifically number theory and algebra), film photography, painting, and so on and so forth. Since the most of my interests aren't really something I feel the need to blog about, this will probably mostly be a blog of short travelogues to showcase some film pictures that me and my boyfriend have taken, mostly for ourselves and to share with friends. I usually only take pictures when I'm on vacation because it's too expensive, but that's ok because I only have 1GB of space available here anyway. Instagram just doesn't work well to share something you want people to see, and that's really the main reason I'm here! If you're reading this, I hope you don't just scroll past, but it's ok if you do - after all, none of this matters anyway.

Everything is taken on a Canon AE-1, usually with a Tokina ø52 35-70mm lens on 35mm film, if you want to know.

Maybe in the future I'll branch out and create a page for painting, which I do rarely and usually only on my iPad.

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Joe Harris's Algebraic Geometry: A First Course.

I am intended to introduce students to algebraic geometry; to give them a sense of the basic objects considered, the questions asked about them, and the sort of answers one can expect to obtain. I thus emphasize the classical roots of the subject. For readers interested in simply seeing what the subject is about, I avoid the more technical details better treated with the most recent methods. For readers interested in pursuing the subject further, I will provide a basis for understanding the developments of the last half century, which have put the subject on a radically new footing. Based on lectures given at Brown and Harvard Universities, I retain the informal style of the lectures and stresses examples throughout; the theory is developed as needed. My first part is concerned with introducing basic varieties and constructions; I describe, for example, affine and projective varieties, regular and rational maps, and particular classes of varieties such as determinantal varieties and algebraic groups. My second part discusses attributes of varieties, including dimension, smoothness, tangent spaces and cones, degree, and parameter and moduli spaces.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test