Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Robin Hartshorne

Born: March 15, 1938 (age 87)
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)