Burt Totaro
Burt James Totaro (* 1969 ) is an American mathematician who deals with algebraic geometry .
Life
Burt Totaro took part in the program for early mathematics at Johns Hopkins University and began his studies at Princeton University in 1982 . In 1989 he received his doctorate with Shōshichi Kobayashi at the University of California, Berkeley ( K-theory and algebraic cycles ). He is a Lowndean Professor at the University of Cambridge .
Totaro deals with topological questions of algebraic geometry, especially around the still open conjecture of Hodge , one of the Clay problems .
From 1995 to 1997 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing (Topology of singular algebraic varieties). In 2000 he received the Whitehead Prize . Totaro has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2009 (2009).
He is co-editor of Compositio Mathematica and was co-editor of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society from 2003 to 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burt Totaro in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Totaro, Burt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Totaro, Burt James (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |