Joe Harris (mathematician)

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Nationality American Role Mathematician Institutions Harvard University		Alma mater Harvard University Fields Mathematics Name Joe Harris

Born August 17, 1951 (age 73) ( 1951-08-17 ) Doctoral students Dan AbramovichLucia CaporasoJames McKernanJuan MiglioreRahul PandharipandeRavi Vakil Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books Algebraic Geometry: A First Co, The Belly Book, The Magic of Numbers, Moduli of curves, Understanding Memory: The Sour Similar People Phillip Griffiths, William Fulton, David Eisenbud, Ravi Vakil, Rahul Pandharipande
Education Harvard University (1978) Doctoral advisor Phillip Griffiths

Joseph Daniel Harris (born August 17, 1951), known nearly universally as Joe Harris, is a mathematician at Harvard University working in the field of algebraic geometry. He attended college at and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1978 under Phillip Griffiths.

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Work

During the 1980s he was on the faculty of Brown University, moving to Harvard around 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, 129, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-97495-8, MR 1153249 , with William Fulton

Joe Harris. (1995), Algebraic Geometry: A First Course, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-97716-4

David Eisenbud, Joe Harris. (2000), The Geometry of Schemes, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 197, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-98638-8, MR 1730819 , with David Eisenbud

Moduli of Curves ISBN 978-0-387-98438-4, with Ian Morrison.

Harris has supervised 41 Ph.D. students (as of 2012), including James McKernan, Rahul Pandharipande, Zvezdelina Stankova and Ravi Vakil.

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