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Robin Hartshorne

b. 1938

American mathematician

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Born 1938. Robin Hartshorne is an American mathematician and university teacher, known for Algebraic Geometry (book).

Robin Cope Hartshorne ( ; 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 (under the name Robert C. Hartshorne ). 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. 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,

Hartshorne is the author of the text Algebraic Geometry.

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.

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. 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; corrected 4th printing, 2005. 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,

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Birth century
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Known for
Algebraic Geometry (book)
Education
Princeton University, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley
Employers
Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley
Awards
Leroy P. Steele Prize; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society; Honorary doctorate from Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Also known as
Robin Cope Hartshorne

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American mathematician

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Robin Hartshorne was born on 15 March 1938 in Boston.

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Robin Hartshorne is a mathematician and university teacher.

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Robin Hartshorne is known for Algebraic Geometry (book).

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Robin Hartshorne is American.

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