All Items 1 Collection 1 The Octagon 1 Contributor 3 Cox, David A. (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College) 1 Little, John B. (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, College of the Holy Cross) 1 O'Shea, Donal (President, New College of Florida) 1 Topic 3 Academic writing 1 Commutative algebra 1 Geometry, Algebraic 1 Part Of 1 The Amherst College Octagon 1 Genre 1 Articles 1 Subject 3 Academic writing 1 Commutative algebra 1 Geometry, Algebraic 1 The story of ideals, varieties and algorithms Cox, David A. (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College) This expository article tells the story of how the book "Ideals, Varieties and Algorithms" came to be written. The story of ideals, varieties and algorithms