1 Homework 1
2 (Due on Friday, 14/02/2025)
3 All exercise numbers are from Hartshorne’s ‘Algebraic Geometry’.
4 (1) Chapter I, Section 1: Exercises 1.1–1.12.
5 (2) Show that any non-empty open subset of an irreducible space is irre-
6 ducible and dense.
7 (3) Let Y be an irreducible subset of a topological space X. Then show
8 that its closure Y in X is also irreducible.
9 (4) Show that continuous image of an irreducible space is irreducible.
10 (5) If X is a Noetharian topological space such that single point sets are
11 closed and dimension of X is 0, then show that X is a finite set.
12 (6) If A is a Noetharian ring, then show that the formal power series ring
13 A[[x1 , x2 , . . . , xn ]] in n-variables is also Noetharian. (Hint: Use the
14 hint provided in the class)
15 (7) Show that a ring A is Noetharian if and only if all of its prime ideals are
16 finitely generated. (Hint: Let Σ be the set of all non-finitely generated
17 ideals. Show that Σ has a maximal element which is a prime ideal.)