Name Burt Totaro Role Mathematician | ||
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Institutions University of California, Los AngelesUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of Chicago Alma mater Princeton UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley Thesis K-Theory and Algebraic Cycles (1989) Books Group Cohomology and Algebraic Cycles | ||
Burt totaro decomposition of the diagonal and applications
Burt James Totaro, FRS (b. 1967), is an American mathematician at UCLA, specializing in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.
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- Burt totaro decomposition of the diagonal and applications
- Finite or infinite One key to algebraic cycles Burt Totaro
- Education and early life
- Career and research
- Selected works
- References
Finite or infinite? One key to algebraic cycles - Burt Totaro
Education and early life
Totaro participated in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth while in grade school. After spending two years at Moorestown High School in New Jersey, he enrolled at Princeton University at the age of thirteen. He graduated in 1984 and went on to graduate school at Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989.
Career and research
In 2000, he was elected Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge. In the same year, he was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society. In 2009, Totaro was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Since 2009, he has been one of three managing editors of the journal Compositio Mathematica. In 2012, he became a Professor in the UCLA Department of Mathematics.
Totaro's work is influenced by the Hodge conjecture, and is based on the connections and application of topology to algebraic geometry. His work has applications in a number of diverse areas of mathematics, from representation theory to Lie theory to group cohomology.