Burt Totaro

Burt Totaro

Burt Totaro is an American mathematician, educated at Princeton and Berkeley [Mathematics Genealogy Project [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=32036] ] . In 2000, he was awarded the Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society. [Citation for Burt Totaro [http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/prizes_com/citations00/totaro.html] ] That same year, he was elected Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge.

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* [http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.]


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