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Robin Hartshorne studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J.-P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, Hartshorne became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught there for several years. In 1972 he moved to California where he is now Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of "Residues and Duality" (1966), "Foundations of Projective Geometry (1968), "Ample Subvarieties of Algebraic Varieties" (1970), and numerous research titles. His current research interest is the geometry of projective varieties and vector bundles. He has been a visiting professor at the College de France and at Kyoto University, where he gave lectures in French and in Japanese, respectively. Professor Hartshorne is married to Edie Churchill, educator and psychotherapist, and has two sons. He has travelled widely, speaks several foreign languages, and is an experienced mountain climber. He is also an accomplished amateur musician: he has played the flute for many years, and during his last visit to Kyoto he began studying the shakuhachi.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #448404 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 512 pages

Customer Reviews

The bible.
This book is the bible of any algebraic geometer. It emphasizes the powerful sheaf-theoretic view of algebraic geometry (which is the point of view that scores most big hits when proving conjectures). It's probably a good idea to do some commutative algebra before embarking on a detailed study of the book, but essentially it can be read with just, say, a copy of Bourbaki's comprehensive tome to hand.