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Robin Hartshorne

Robin Hartshorne
Born (1938-03-15) March 15, 1938 (age 86)
Boston, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
Harvard University
Phillips Exeter Academy
Known forAlgebraic Geometry
Hartshorne ellipse
AwardsLeroy P. Steele Prize (1979)
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
ThesisConnectedness of the Hilbert scheme (1963)
Doctoral advisorJohn Coleman Moore
Oscar Zariski
Doctoral studentsMei-Chu Chang
Lawrence Ein
David Gieseker
Mark Gross
Arthur Ogus

Robin Cope Hartshorne (/ˈhɑːrts.hɔːrn/ HARTS-horn; born March 15, 1938) is an American mathematician who is known for his work in algebraic geometry.

Career

Hartshorne was a Putnam Fellow in Fall 1958 while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University[1] (under the name Robert C. Hartshorne[2]). He received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1963 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled Connectedness of the Hilbert scheme under the supervision of John Coleman Moore and Oscar Zariski.[3][4] He then became a Junior Fellow at Harvard University, where he taught for several years.[5] In 1972, he was appointed to the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley,[5] where he is a Professor Emeritus as of 2020.[6]

Hartshorne is the author of the text Algebraic Geometry.[7][8]

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."[9] In 2012, Hartshorne became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]

Personal life

Hartshorne attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy, graduating in 1955. Hartshorne is married to Edie Churchill and has two sons and an adopted daughter.[5] He is a mountain climber and amateur flute and shakuhachi player.[5]

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;[11] 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;[12] corrected 2nd printing, 2002;[13] 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[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ Gallian, Joseph A. (October 1989). "Fifty Years of Putnam Trivia". The American Mathematical Monthly. 96 (8): 711–713. doi:10.2307/2324720. JSTOR 2324720. Retrieved December 10, 2021.
  2. ^ "List of Previous Putnam Winners" (PDF). Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  3. ^ Hartshorne, Robin (1963). Connectedness of the Hilbert scheme.
  4. ^ Robin Hartshorne at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ a b c d Algebraic Geometry. Springer Science+Business Media. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  6. ^ "Robin C. Hartshorne". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  7. ^ Hartshorne, Robin (1977), Algebraic Geometry, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-90244-9, MR 0463157, Zbl 0367.14001
  8. ^ Shatz, Stephen S. (1979), "Review: Robin Hartshorne, Algebraic geometry", Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., New Series, 1 (3): 553–560, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14618-4
  9. ^ "Prize: Leroy P. Steele Prize (1970 - 1992)". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
  10. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
  11. ^ Shatz, Stephen S. (1979). "Review of Algebraic geometry by Robin Hartshorne". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series. 1: 553–560. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14618-4.
  12. ^ Henderson, David W. (2002). "Review of Geometry: Euclid and beyond by Robin Hartshorne" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. New Series. 39: 563–571. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-02-00949-7.
  13. ^ Seddighin, Morteza (21 April 2004). "Review of Geometry: Euclid and Beyond by R. Hartshorne". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America, maa.org.
  14. ^ Zaldivar, Felipe (9 March 2010). "Review of Deformation Theory by R. Hartshorne". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America, maa.org.
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