Robin Hartshorne began his training in geometry with a course in mechanical drawing in the fifth grade, where he learned about ruler and compass constructions. Later, with a Harvard AB and a Princeton PhD, he was fortunate to study algebraic geometry in Cambridge and Paris at a time when the new techniques of schemes and cohomology were being developed. He wrote what he had learned in Algebraic Geometry (1977). His recent research is on the classification of algebraic space curves, and he is currently working on a textbook of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry and its relation to modern algebra. |