Robin Visser

Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Algebra, Charles University

Part III notes

This page hosts some of my handwritten (and very rough) lecture notes for Cambridge Part III (Maths Tripos) courses in the 2019/20 academic year. All errors are my own. Another well-written reference for the 2019/20 academic year is Qiangru Kuang’s notes.

Preparatory workshop

Algebraic Number Theory

Michaelmas 2019, lecturer: Jack Thorne

Course website: archived. Official material: notes, sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3, sheet 4, revision sheet.

My summaries: definitions and theorems, proofs. See also Qiangru Kuang’s notes.

Examples classes: Class 1 25 Oct 2019 · Class 2 15 Nov 2019 · Class 3 22 Nov 2019 · Class 4 6 Dec 2019.

Elliptic Curves

Michaelmas 2019, lecturer: Tom Fisher

Course website: archived. See also Qiangru Kuang’s notes.

Exercise sheets: formula sheet, sheet 1 (solutions), sheet 2 (solutions), sheet 3 (solutions), sheet 4 (solutions).

My summary: definitions and theorems.

Examples classes: Class 1 28 Oct 2019 · Class 2 11 Nov 2019 · Class 3 25 Nov 2019 · Class 4 20 Jan 2020.

Algebra

Michaelmas 2019, lecturer: Chris Brookes

Exercise sheets: sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3, sheet 4. See also Qiangru Kuang’s notes.

My summary: definitions and theorems.

Examples classes: Class 1 29 Oct 2019 · Class 2 12 Nov 2019 · Class 3 26 Nov 2019 · Class 4 14 Jan 2020.

Modular Forms and L-functions

Michaelmas 2019, lecturer: Anthony J. Scholl

Course website: link.

My summary: definitions and theorems.

Algebraic Geometry

Michaelmas 2019, lecturer: Mark Gross

See Qiangru Kuang’s notes.

Toric Geometry

Michaelmas 2019, lecturer: Dhruv Ranganathan

Course website: link.

Algebraic Topology

Michaelmas 2019, lecturer: Jacob Rasmussen

Course website: archived. Introduction handout. See also Qiangru Kuang’s notes.

Analytic Number Theory

Lent 2020, lecturer: Thomas Bloom

Course website: link. See also Qiangru Kuang’s notes.

My summary: definitions and theorems.

Profinite Groups

Lent 2020, lecturer: Gareth Wilkes

Course website: link. See Qiangru Kuang’s notes.

Infinite Games

Lent 2020, lecturer: Benedikt Löwe

Course website: link.

Other Lent 2020 courses

Part III notes by others

Sebastian Pancratz (2007/08) · Dexter Chua (2016/17, 2017/18) · Alexandre Daoud (2016/17) · Paul Minter (2017/18, 2018/19) · Ian Lim (2018/19) · Bhavik Mehta (2018/19) · Qiangru Kuang (2019/20) · David Ang (2020/21) · Adam Kelly (2021/22) · David Bai (2022/23) · Daniel Bassett (2022/23) · Sky Wilshaw (2023/24).

A cat roaming around the Centre for Mathematical Sciences
The Cambridge Part III cat, 2019/20.