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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Robin Hartshorne
Born: March 15, 1938 (age 86)
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)