Robin Hartshorne

thumb|Robin Hartshorne 2005 Robin Hartshorne (born 15 March 1938) is an American mathematician and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Quotes Why do I paint? In my work as a mathematician, form, structure, and economy of expression are important. In music, add tone quality, balance and harmony. And now in painting, these aesthetic values are enhanced by color, contrast, and composition. Robin Hartshorne Fine Art, fineartstudioonlione.com Algebraic Geometry (1977) Algebraic geometry has developed in waves, each with its own language and point of view. The late nineteenth century saw the function-theoretic approach of Riemann, the more geometric approach of Brill and Noether, and the purely algebraic approach of Kronecker, Dedekind, and Weber. The Italian school followed with Castelnuovo, Enriques, and Severi, culminating in the classification of algebraic surfaces. Then came the twentieth-century "American" school of Chow, Weil, and Zariski, which gave firm algebraic foundations to the Italian intuition. Most recently, Serre and Grothendieck initiated the French school, which has rewritten the foundations of algebraic geometry in terms of schemes and cohomology, and which has an impressive record of solving old problems with new techniques. Each of these schools has introduced new concepts and methods. Algebraic Geometry, Springer, (1977), p. xiii External links Category:Living people Category:Mathematicians from the United States Category:Academics from the United States Category:Scientists from Boston Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Harvard University faculty Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty