Is there a good list of errata for Atiyah–Macdonald available? A cursory Google search reveals a laughably short list here, with just a few typos. Is there any source available online which lists inaccuracies and gaps?
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1$\begingroup$ Please read tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/154/… $\endgroup$– Willie WongCommented Oct 15, 2010 at 20:18
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7$\begingroup$ I've just corrected the spelling of Ian G. Macdonald's name, to avoid confusion with the less famous group theorist Ian D. MacDonald. Aside from this, I think it's pointless to use this site to assemble errata for a book. The answer to the question about a Web source of errata is very likely no. If anybody wants to start a special Web site for this purpose, it's fine with me. Virtually all math books do have at least minor errors. $\endgroup$– Jim HumphreysCommented Oct 15, 2010 at 23:19
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15$\begingroup$ Let me try and "refute" the "high-profile organizer" comment above. To be frank, MO just turned out to be a repository for the Cassels-Froehlich errata rather than anything else. The reason I got so many was not because I posted here. It was because I asked for errata in many places rather than just here, all at the same time---but, crucially, I also approached several high-profile people personally (Hendrik Lenstra, Rene Schoof, J.-P. Serre, the Conrads [before, I think, they were MO-active] and others) and asked them if they had anything to send me... $\endgroup$– Kevin BuzzardCommented Oct 24, 2010 at 9:25
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8$\begingroup$ ...and several responded with big lists. Note that almost all of the answers in that thread were posted by me, and are of the form "prof X just sent me this big list". I really pushed to make the errata, and, because I had a deadline myself (the LMS wanted to republish with the errata in) I had to push the people I was asking. I worked very hard to make those errata. So, it's very different to just posting once here and then sitting back and hoping (which, I think, is what is happening here, although I do apologise if I've got this wrong). Also C-F was typeset by a company who had very... $\endgroup$– Kevin BuzzardCommented Oct 24, 2010 at 9:29
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5$\begingroup$ ...limited experience in mathematical typesetting, and they introduced many errors. (Oh---I should have mentioned Birch and Tate in my list of bigshots I approached directly, and I'm sure there are others I've forgotten). $\endgroup$– Kevin BuzzardCommented Oct 24, 2010 at 9:29
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Maybe in page 22, in the proof of corollary 2.7, $=$ should be $\cong$?