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Robin Cope Hartshorne ( ; born March 15, 1938) is an American
mathematician
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who is known for his work in
algebraic geometry
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.
Career
Hartshorne was a
Putnam Fellow in Fall 1958 while he was an undergraduate at
Harvard University
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(under the name Robert C. Hartshorne). He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from
Princeton University
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in 1963 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled ''Connectedness of the Hilbert scheme'' under the supervision of
John Coleman Moore
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Early life and education
Moore was born in 1923 in Staten Island, Ne ...
and
Oscar Zariski.
He then became a
Junior Fellow at Harvard University, where he taught for several years.
In 1972, he was appointed to the faculty at the
University of California, Berkeley
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,
where he is a Professor Emeritus as of 2020.
Hartshorne is the author of the text ''
Algebraic Geometry
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''.
Awards
In 1979, Hartshorne was awarded the
Leroy P. Steele Prize for "his expository research article Equivalence relations on algebraic cycles and subvarieties of small codimension, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, volume 29, American Mathematical Society, 1975, pp. 129-164; and his book ''Algebraic geometry'', Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1977." In 2012, Hartshorne became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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.
Personal life
Hartshorne attended high school at
Phillips Exeter Academy
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, graduating in 1955. Hartshorne is married to Edie Churchill and has two sons and an adopted daughter.
He is a mountain climber and amateur flute and ''
shakuhachi
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Selected publications
*''Foundations of Projective Geometry'', New York: W. A. Benjamin, 1967;
*''Ample Subvarieties of Algebraic Varieties'', New York: Springer-Verlag. 1970;
*''
Algebraic Geometry
Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...
'', New York:
Springer-Verlag
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
, 1977; corrected 6th printing, 1993.
GTM 52,
Families of Curves in P3 and Zeuthen's Problem.Vol. 617. American Mathematical Society, 1997.
*''Geometry: Euclid and Beyond'', New York: Springer-Verlag, 2000; corrected 2nd printing, 2002
''Local Cohomology: A Seminar Given by A. Grothendieck, Harvard University. Fall, 1961''.Vol. 41. Springer, 2006. (lecture notes by R. Hartshorne)
*''
Deformation Theory
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'',
Springer-Verlag
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
,
GTM 257, 2010,
See also
*
Hartshorne ellipse
References
External links
Home pageat the University of California at Berkeley
Hartshorne's Paintings
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1938 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Algebraic geometers
Princeton University alumni
Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty
University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
American flautists
Harvard University alumni
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
Putnam Fellows