Robin Hartshorne

Robin Cope Hartshorne (born March 15, 1938) is an American mathematician. Hartshorne is an algebraic geometer who studied with Oscar Zariski, David Mumford, Jean-Pierre Serre and Alexander Grothendieck.

Robin Hartshorne
Born	(1938-03-15) March 15, 1938 Boston, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University
Awards	Steele Prize (1979)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	John Coleman Moore Oscar Zariski
Doctoral students	Mei-Chu Chang Lawrence Ein David Gieseker Mark Gross Arthur Ogus

He was a Putnam Fellow in Fall, 1958. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1963 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Connectedness of the Hilbert scheme."[1] He then became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, where he taught for several years. In the 1970s he was appointed to the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently retired.

Hartshorne is the author of the text Algebraic Geometry.

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]

Selected publications

• Foundations of Projective Geometry, New York: W. A. Benjamin, 1967;
• Ample Subvarieties of Algebraic Varieties, New York: Springer-Verlag. 1970;
• Algebraic Geometry, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1977;[3] corrected 6th printing, 1993. GTM 52, ISBN 0-387-90244-9
• Families of Curves in P³ and Zeuthen's Problem. Vol. 617. American Mathematical Society, 1997.
• Geometry: Euclid and Beyond, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2000;[4] corrected 2nd printing, 2002;[5] corrected 4th printing, 2005. ISBN 0-387-98650-2
• Local Cohomology: A Seminar Given by A. Grothendieck, Harvard University. Fall, 1961. Vol. 41. Springer, 2006. (lecture notes by R. Hartshorne)
• Deformation Theory, Springer-Verlag, GTM 257, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4419-1595-5[6]

See also

• Hartshorne ellipse

References

1. Hartshorne, Robin (1963). Connectedness of the Hilbert scheme.
2. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
3. Shatz, Stephen S. (1979). "Review of Algebraic geometry by Robin Hartshorne". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (N.S.). 1: 553–560. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14618-4.
4. Henderson, David W. (2002). "Review of Geometry: Euclid and beyond by Robin Hartshorne" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (N.S.). 39: 563–571.
5. Seddighin, Morteza (21 April 2004). "Review of Geometry: Euclid and Beyond by R. Hartshorne". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America, maa.org.
6. Zaldivar, Felipe (9 March 2010). "Review of Deformation Theory by R. Hartshorne". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America, maa.org.

External links

• Home page at the University of California at Berkeley
• Hartshorne's Paintings