May 20, 2005: The book has been revised and upgraded. Hopefully this
is the final version.
This book is based on the lectures on motivic cohomology which
Voevodsky gave at the Institute for Advance Study in Princeton during
1999/2000. Although we still anticipate making small changes,
the "beta" version of the notes is now available at the following
web site.
The first half of the text was originally made available in May 2001,
and corresponds to the fall term of 1999. The first half of the present
version differs from the 2001 version in some respects, such as the
addition of appendix 8A on "Tensor Triangulated Categories."
The idea of these lectures was to define motivic cohomology and to give
careful proofs of the elementary results which relate it to other known
invariants of algebraic varieties. In the process, we need to develop
many of the main structural properties of motivic cohomology.
As a result, these lectures cover a considerable portion of the book
"Cycles, Transfers and Motivic Homology Theories", but from a
different point of view.