Tutorials

Explore Jupyter notebooks demonstrating OSCAR’s capabilities. The tutorials are designed for, and tested with, the latest stable release OSCAR v1.7.2.

Before You Start

To avoid compatibility issues, make sure you’re using OSCAR v1.7.2 (upgrade instructions).

If you have not yet installed OSCAR, follow our installation guide.

Important: To run tutorials locally, install IJulia (Julia support for Jupyter) by completing the optional IJulia setup step from the installation guide.

Running Tutorials Locally

Download the notebook of interest from the list below.
Launch Jupyter on your machine (see Jupyter documentation).
Open the downloaded notebook, and execute it using a Julia kernel.

Available Tutorials

Commutative Algebra

Intersection Theory

Polyhedral Geometry

Computing Cox rings of linear quotients

Author(s): Johannes Schmitt

Last modified: 15 Mar 2024

Topic: Toric Geometry

Cox rings of blow-ups of points

Author(s): Mara Belotti

Last modified: 05 Jul 2024

Topic: Toric Geometry

Author(s): Martin Bies, Luca Remke

Last modified: 03 Mar 2025

Topic: Toric Geometry

Tutorial grid last updated on 06 May 2026.

More Tutorial Resources

Looking for more resources? Check out the polymake notebooks and Hecke notebooks.

Contributing Tutorials

Want to improve or add a tutorial? See our contribution guidelines.