| Joe Harris | |
|---|---|
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| Born | (1951-08-17) August 17, 1951 (age 73) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brown University Harvard University |
| Thesis | A Bound on the Geometric Genus of Projective Varieties (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Phillip Griffiths |
| Doctoral students | |
Joseph Daniel Harris (born August 17, 1951) is the Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He specializes in the field of algebraic geometry. After earning an AB from Harvard College he continued at Harvard to study for a PhD under Phillip Griffiths.
Work
During the 1980s, he was on the faculty of Brown University, moving to Harvard in 1988. He served as chair of the department at Harvard from 2002 to 2005. His work is characterized by its classical geometric flavor: he has claimed that nothing he thinks about could not have been imagined by the Italian geometers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that if he has had greater success than them, it is because he has access to better tools.
Harris is well known for several of his books on algebraic geometry, notable for their informal presentations:
- Principles of Algebraic Geometry ISBN 978-0-471-05059-9, with Phillip Griffiths
- Geometry of Algebraic Curves, Vol. 1 ISBN 978-0-387-90997-4, with Enrico Arbarello, Maurizio Cornalba, and Phillip Griffiths
- William Fulton, Joe Harris. (1991), Representation Theory, A First Course, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 129, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0979-9, ISBN 978-0-387-97495-8, MR 1153249, with William Fulton
- Harris, Joe (1992). Algebraic Geometry, A First Course. Springer Science. ISBN 978-0-387-97716-4.
- David Eisenbud, Joe Harris. (2000), The Geometry of Schemes, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 197, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-98638-8, MR 1730819, with David Eisenbud
- David Eisenbud, Joseph Harris (2016) (14 April 2016). 3264 and All That: A Second Course in Algebraic Geometry. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107602724.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - Moduli of Curves ISBN 978-0-387-98438-4, with Ian Morrison.
- Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1, with Benedict Gross and Emily Riehl, 2019
As of 2018, Harris has supervised 50 PhD students, including Brendan Hassett, James McKernan, Rahul Pandharipande, Zvezdelina Stankova, and Ravi Vakil.
References
- ^ "Joseph Harris". Professional and Lifelong Learning. Harvard University. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- Lipman, Joseph (1980). "Review: Principles of algebraic geometry, by Phillip Godwin, and Joseph Harris" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 2 (1): 197–200. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1980-14717-5.
- Ciliberto, Ciro (1999). "Review: Moduli of curves, by J. Harris and I. Morrison" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 36 (4): 499–503. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-99-00791-0.
- Gross, Benedict; Harris, Joe; Riehl, Emily (2019). Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1. Cambridge University Press. Reviews:
- Bollman, Mark. Mathematical Reviews. MR 3931738.
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{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Nespolo, Massimo (November 2019). Journal of Applied Crystallography. 52 (6): 1467–1468. doi:10.1107/s1600576719014055.
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- Bollman, Mark. Mathematical Reviews. MR 3931738.
- "Joseph Harris - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
- 1951 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Algebraic geometers
- Brown University faculty
- Central High School (Philadelphia) alumni
- Harvard College alumni
- Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty
- Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni