Burt Totaro
Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Box 951555,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555
Cell: (310) 433-7574.
Department of
Mathematics
University of California, Los Angeles
Blog: Geometry Bulletin Board
Publications
In and around Los Angeles
UCLA algebra seminar
Birational Geometry Seminar (organized by Joaquín Moraga)
Southern California Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Western Algebraic Geometry Symposium
UCLA algebra group (including algebraic geometry)
L.A. Metro
(bus and rail)
Outside Los Angeles
researchseminars.org
Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Sigma
Journal of the American Mathematical Society
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
He would often complain that Algebra (though of great use)
was too much admired, and so followed after, that it made men
not contemplate and consider so much the nature and power of
Lines,
which was a great hinderance to the Groweth of Geometrie; for that
though algebra did rarely well and quickly, and easily in right lines,
yet 'twould not bite in solid (I thinke) Geometrie.
John Aubrey
Q. Our cat, who is thirty-five, spends all of her time in bed.
She follows every move I make, and this is beginning to get to me.
She never seems sleepy nor particularly happy. Is there anything
I could give her? -- Miss L. McC.
A. There are no medicines which can safely be given to induce
felicity in a cat, but you might try lettuce, which is a soporific,
for the wakefulness. I would have to see the cat watching you to
tell whether anything could be done to divert her attention.
James Thurber
Burt Totaro (totaro@math.ucla.edu)
