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It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
Robin Hartshorne

Born: March 15, 1938 (age 88)
Bio: Robin Cope Hartshorne is an American mathematician. Hartshorne is an algebraic geometer who studied with Zariski, Mumford, J.-P. Serre and Grothendieck.
Known for:
- Geometry: Euclid and Beyond (2000)
- Algebraic Geometry (1977)
- Foundations of projective geometry (1967)
- Deformation Theory (2009)
- Ample subvarieties of algebraic varieties (1970)






