Joe Harris (mathematician)

Joseph Daniel Harris ( born 1951 ), known as Joe Harris, is an American mathematician who is engaged in algebraic geometry.

Harris studied at Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1978 at Phillip Griffiths (A bound on the geometric genus of projective varieties ). After Moore was Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later a professor at Brown University and from the late 1980s, again at Harvard. 2002 to 2005 he was head of the mathematics faculty at Harvard.

Harris is known for several textbooks on algebraic geometry, some with Griffiths, in which he emphasizes connections to classical algebraic geometry of the 19th century and the Italian school at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1983 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw ( Recent work on).

His doctoral include Ravi Vakil and Dan Abramovich.

Writings

• With Phillip Griffiths: Principles of Algebraic Geometry, Wiley, 1978, ISBN 978-0471050599
• With Griffiths, Enrico Arbarello, Maurizio Cornalba: Geometry of Algebraic Curves, Volume 1, Springer, ISBN 978-0387909974
• With William Fulton: Representation Theory, A First Course, Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 1991, ISBN 978-0-387-97495-8
• Algebraic Geometry: A First Course, Springer 1992, ISBN 978-0-387-97716-4
• David Eisenbud: The Geometry of Schemes, Springer, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 2000, ISBN 978-0-387-98638-8 (first as Schemes - the language of modern algebraic geometry in 1992, Wadsworth and Brook / Cole )
• With Ian Morrison: Moduli of Curves, Springer, 1998, ISBN 978-0387984384
• David Eisenbud: Curves in projective space, Les Presses de l' Université de Montréal, 1982