If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be David Eisenbud's Commutative Algebra with a view towards Algebraic Geometry. I am an attempt to write on commutative algebra in a way that includes the geometric ideas that played a great role in its . formation; with a view, in short, towards Algebraic Geometry I cover the material that graduate students studying Algebraic Geometry - and in particular those studying the book Algebraic Geometry by Robin Hartshorne - should know The reader should have had one year of basic graduate. Algebra. Which Springer GTM WOULD you be? The Springer GTM TEST