About this title: Robin Hartshorne studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J.-P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, Hartshorne became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught there for several years. In 1972 he moved to California where he is now Professor at the ...
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Description: 0387902449 You'll receive a BRAND-NEW book in perfect condition. IMMEDIATE & FAST UPS shipping. UPS does NOT deliver to PO Boxes or APO addresses, so please give us a physical address to ship to. We cannot ship this item to Alaska or Hawaii. We provide EXCEPTIONAL customer service. We're open 24/7 to serve you best. We've been selling online for over 13 years, over 3 million customers served. Please note that since this item is brand-new & direct from the publisher, it WILL include everything ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780387902449ISBN:0387902449
Description: New. Robin Hartshorne studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J. -P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, Hartshorne became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taugh... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780387902449ISBN:0387902449
Description: New. Offers an introduction to abstract algebraic geometry. This book enables the reader to make the drastic transition between the basic, intuitive questions about affine and projective varieties with which the subject begins, and the elaborate general me... read more
Description: Fair. 0387902449 Shows heavy use, highlights/marks present, no missing pages. Hardcover. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. Robin Hartshorne studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J. -P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, Hartshorne became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught there for several years. In 1972 he moved to California where he is now Professor at the ... read more
"Comprehensive and definitive as it may be, it's also borderline unreadable to the uninitiated and greatly in need of more explicit and concrete examples. Should be no-one's first introduction to algebraic geometry."
"My PhD advisor inherited a pedagogical approach to Algebraic Geometry from his own advisor: to prepare them for research, have your advisees work through the entirety of this text, including all of the problems. It's an arduous, strenuous process -- the text is dense, and many of the problems are actually important theorems in AG (woe unto the reader who skips them!). Even though most of the material in this book is 30 years old, it's a relatively small step to go from completing Hartshorne to catching up with some cutting-edge research in the field (and thence to making novel contributions)."
"I had great trouble with chapter two of this book. Some of my confusion has been mitigated after finding Eisenbud's book The Geometry of Schemes, but I am still trying to familiarize myself with the subject. Seriously though, prepare yourself for hours of banging your head on desks and flipping through pages to find definitions. I find it for some odd reason very hard to retain memory of what I read in this book making it necessary to read pages several times."
"This book is dense, which is good because it has lots of information in it. That said, it is probably not the best book to learn algebraic geometry from. Personally, I found it pretty difficult to learn algebraic geometry from this book.
However, I get the impression that if you already know algebraic geometry, this is an indispensable resource.
UPDATE: I also used this book to learn about Sheaf Cohomology. I actually found it quite helpful to learn about these subjects."
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