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A traditional approach to algebraic geometry requires a course in commutative algebra, a great deal of patience for abstract nonsense, and then an innate love for elliptic curves. However, once one has scaled these imposing walls of what seems like pure math for its own sake, one finds a subject which has a great deal of algorithmic and philosophical merits.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.algebraicjulia.org/post/2023/03/algebraic-geometry-1/index.html