If U is an open connected subset of R^n and f is a real-valued harmonic function on U, then what can be said about the structure on the real field generated by f? In this generality, the question is only heuristic; indeed, it is rather hopeless without some reasonable tameness conditions on the boundary of U (e.g., U=R^n). I will give a brief survey of what I know (which is far outweighed by what I do not know). There are connections to open problems in the associated analytic geometry.