Joe Harris (mathematician) explained

Joe Harris
Birth Date:	17 August 1951
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Brown University Harvard University
Alma Mater:	Harvard University (AB, PhD)
Doctoral Advisor:	Phillip Griffiths
Doctoral Students:	Lucia Caporaso Brendan Hassett James McKernan Rahul Pandharipande Zvezdelina Stankova Ravi Vakil

Joseph Daniel Harris (born August 17, 1951) is a mathematician at Harvard University working in the field of algebraic geometry. After earning an AB from Harvard College, where he took Math 55,^[1] 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 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, with Phillip Griffiths^[2]
• Geometry of Algebraic Curves, Vol. 1, with Enrico Arbarello, Maurizio Cornalba, and Phillip Griffiths
• , with William Fulton
• Book: Harris, Joe . Algebraic Geometry, A First Course . 1992. . 978-0-387-97716-4.
• , with David Eisenbud
• Book: 3264 and All That: A Second Course in Algebraic Geometry. David Eisenbud, Joseph Harris (2016). 14 April 2016. Cambridge University Press. 978-1107602724.
• Moduli of Curves, with Ian Morrison.^[3]
• , with Benedict Gross and Emily Riehl, 2019^[4]

As of 2018, Harris has supervised 50 PhD students, including Brendan Hassett, James McKernan, Rahul Pandharipande, Zvezdelina Stankova, and Ravi Vakil.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yefremova . Anastasia . May 5, 2022 . Demystifying Math 55 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220808194309/https://www.math.harvard.edu/demystifying-math-55/ . August 8, 2022 . August 25, 2022 . Department of Mathematics, Harvard University.
2. Lipman, Joseph. Review: Principles of algebraic geometry, by Phillip Godwin, and Joseph Harris. 1980. 2. 1. 197–200. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 10.1090/s0273-0979-1980-14717-5. free.
3. Ciliberto, Ciro. Review: Moduli of curves, by J. Harris and I. Morrison. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 1999. 36. 4. 499–503. 10.1090/s0273-0979-99-00791-0. free.
4. Book: Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1. Gross. Benedict. Benedict Gross. Harris. Joe. Joe Harris (mathematician). Emily. Riehl. Cambridge University Press. 2019. Reviews:
   • Mark. Bollman. none. Mathematical Reviews. 3931738.
   • Ludwig. Paditz. none. zbMATH. 1423.00005.
   • Nespolo. Massimo. November 2019. 10.1107/s1600576719014055. 6. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 1467–1468. none. 52. free.
5. Web site: Joseph Harris - The Mathematics Genealogy Project. www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. 2018-05-01.