| Birth date | August 17, 1951 (age 75) |
|---|---|
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Workplaces | Brown University Harvard University |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB, PhD) |
| Thesis url | https://search.worldcat.org/title/76986976?oclcNum=76986976 |
| Thesis year | 1978 |
| Doctoral advisor | Phillip Griffiths |
| Doctoral students |
Joseph Daniel Harris (born August 17, 1951) is the Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.[1] 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.[1] 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.[citation needed]
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[2]
- 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, Vol. 129, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 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, Vol. 197, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 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.
- Moduli of Curves ISBN 978-0-387-98438-4, with Ian Morrison.[3]
- Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1, with Benedict Gross and Emily Riehl, 2019[4]
As of 2018, Harris has supervised 50 PhD students, including Lucia Caporaso, Brendan Hassett, James McKernan, Rahul Pandharipande, Zvezdelina Stankova, and Ravi Vakil.[5]
References
- ^ "Joseph Harris". Harvard University. 28 February 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
- ^ Lipman, Joseph (1980). "Review: Principles of algebraic geometry, by Phillip Godwin, and Joseph Harris". 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". 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. "none". Mathematical Reviews. MR 3931738. *Paditz, Ludwig. "none". zbMATH. Zbl 1423.00005. *Nespolo, Massimo (November 2019). "none". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 52 (6): 1467–1468. doi:10.1107/s1600576719014055
- ^ "Joseph Harris - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-01.