Useful Resources for Macaulay 2

If you don’t want to install Macaulay2, here is a website where you can run all your commands:

• Online Macaulay2

If you are using windows and would like to install it, the way I use it is via the windows subsystem for linux

• Installing WSL
• Instructions on how to install Macaulay2 on windows

If you would like to install it and run it locally, then follow along the web resources below

Basic Commands from tutorial sessions

Here is the .m2 file from our first tutorial.

Web resources:

• Macaulay2 homepage
• Intro to Macaulay2
• First Macaulay2 session
• Sturmfels intro to Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry using Macaulay2
• Eisenbud’s intro to Projective Geometry and Homological Algebra using Macaulay2

Books:

The following are books which contain extensive documentation on Macaulay 2

• [EGSS] Eisenbud, Grayson, Sillman and Sturmfels Macaulay2 book