(AG) Reading Rainbow: Get Your Books!

So there's an Algebraic Geometry reading group at this subreddit.

If you're up for this, it looks like you'll have to buy the Beltrametti et al book on your own.  But if you're looking to pick up the other books, and maybe you also want to score an Introduction to Commutative Algebra with some solution manuals on the side... I know a guy... (the blogger gestures down a nearby alley)

Follow the link after the break...

Categories for the Working Mathematician

Suspicious... Ugh

I can't get my hooves on (or my head around) a nice proof of Schur Orthogonality.  I still don't know how to fill in the gaps left in the proof in Serre's book, and all the online proofs I've found involve taking a straight shot of category theory. 

I know, right?

I don't think I have any readers to disappoint right now, but for the people who somehow stumbled in here and are following this business... I'm taking a break from this character theory stuff.  I really ought to learn all the math in these lecture-thingies before I start writing them...

I'mma try to learn some stuff about manifolds while I wait for Mac Lane's book on Category Theory to come in the mail...

What It's All About

Everypony knows that the pony pokey is what it's all about.  But what about this blog-thingy?

This blog is for sharing the two best things ever: math and ponies.  I hope to crank out a pleasant introduction to some interesting math once or twice a week.  Pony-related updates will occur as needed.  Will I find occasions to combine these two delightful things?

By Celestia's simply-connected flank, I think I should!