__NOTOC__ Robin Cope Hartshorne ( ; born March 15, 1938) is an American

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who is known for his work in

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Career

Hartshorne was a Putnam Fellow in Fall 1958 while he was an undergraduate at

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(under the name Robert C. Hartshorne). He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from

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in 1963 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled ''Connectedness of the Hilbert scheme'' under the supervision of

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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

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, where he is a Professor Emeritus as of 2020. Hartshorne is the author of the text ''

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 ...

''.

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

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Personal life

Hartshorne attended high school at

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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 ''

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'' player.

Selected publications

*''Foundations of Projective Geometry'', New York: W. A. Benjamin, 1967; *''Ample Subvarieties of Algebraic Varieties'', New York: Springer-Verlag. 1970; *''

'', New York:

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, 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 In mathematics, deformation theory is the study of infinitesimal conditions associated with varying a solution ''P'' of a problem to slightly different solutions ''P''ε, where ε is a small number, or a vector of small quantities. The infinitesima ...

'',

, GTM 257, 2010,

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