Robin Hartshorne

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Robin Hartshorne (born 1938) is an American mathematician. Hartshorne is an algebraic geometer who studied with Zarsiki, Mumford, J.-P. Serre and Grothendieck. He received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1963 and 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 popular text Algebraic Geometry. He plays the shakuhachi.

[edit] Selected publications

• Algebraic Geometry, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1977; corrected 6th printing, 1993. ISBN 0-387-90244-9,
• Geometry: Euclid and Beyond, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2000; corrected 4th printing, 2005. ISBN 0-387-98650-2,

[edit] External links

• Home page at the University of California at Berkeley
• Robin Hartshorne at the Mathematics Genealogy Project