Dino J. Lorenzini

Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics

 

 

 

Mail:   Department of Mathematics,
        University of Georgia,
        Athens, GA 30602. 
Phone:  (706) 542-2578 
Fax:    (706) 542-5907 or (706) 542-2573 

Email:   lorenzini at math dot uga dot edu

 

 

Number Theory Seminar   (Archives)

 

Joint Athens-Atlanta Number Theory Seminar

Available by clicking on the desired words are publications and preprints, and some information on my book, An Invitation to Arithmetic Geometry.


You can read here a review of John Tate's 1966 Bourbaki Seminar article, one of the most important articles in the field, reprinted twice already. Math Reviews has not yet published a review of this article or of any of its two reprinted versions. To try to correct this surprising state of affair, I sent in the above `free' review to the editor of MR in March 2005. The editor decided not to publish it. It seems to me that every seminal paper should be reviewed by MR. So I then suggested other possible reviewers for Tate’s 1966 seminar article, but MR again decided not to publish any review for it.

How should one cite the Elements de Géométrie Algébrique (EGA)?

How should one cite Crelle’s Journal?


Who coined the terminology Bézout domain? This article is the earliest article (Nov 7th, 1960) that I found in the literature where the term Bézout is used in the modern sense. Surprisingly, the terminology is only inserted in the title, and in the text, the author defines such a ring as `anneau semi-principal’. It makes one wonder whether the insertion of `Bézout’ in the title was suggested by a referee. The author refers in the paper to the book Algèbre commutative, by N. Bourbaki, without any precise reference. The term Bézout domain is used by Bourbaki in Exercise 20 of section 1 in Chapter 7, first published in 1965. Chapters 1-4 were published in 1961.


Errata for Lang’s book Fundamentals of Diophantine Geometry.


For the mathematical travelers, I have included some notes on several departments of mathematics that I visited in Africa.


 

People doing mathematical research at institutions with small libraries and who have problems getting access to mathematical articles already in print should not hesitate to use the free UGA Mathematics Library copying service.


 

Prospective graduate students should check out the Number Theory/Arithmetic Geometry Group at the University of Georgia. You may also access from here the University of Georgia Mathematics department, the Math Reviews, Number Theory Web, Grothendieck's collected works, and other resources. Some information for visitors can be obtained in this link.

 


Vigre seminar on algebraic graph theory.


 

Undergraduate and wide audience talks at UGA.  

 


 

In recent years, several web sites started providing `evaluations' of professors. Unfortunately, these evaluations are anonymous, and the evaluator is self-selected: these evaluations are usually from students that either really liked the professor, or really disliked him/her. In my view, undergraduate students should certainly try to find the best available professor teaching a course, but I doubt that these web sites provide any meaningful information in this respect. To help prospective students in their choice of a professor, I will make public below my class evaluations:

Differential Calculus (Math 2200, Fall 2002, data for first section)

Differential Calculus (Math 2200, Fall 2002, data for second section)

More recent evaluations for Integral Calculus:

Integral Calculus (Math 2260, Fall 2010)

I am not claiming that class evaluations are the best indicator of the quality of the instructor, but at least it is certainly a better indicator than what is found on commercial web sites.


 

Math 2250, Syllabus and Office Hours

 

Math 2250, First lecture  

 

Math 2250, Function in your field of interest

 

Math 2250, Calculus and your field of interest

 


My Erdös (1913-1996) number is 3: Erdös-Granville-Tucker-Lorenzini or Erdös-Dixmier-Raynaud-Lorenzini.

My Einstein (1879-1955) number is 4: Einstein-Straus-Guralnick-Tucker-Lorenzini.

My Hilbert (1862-1943) number is 7:

Hilbert-Courant-Friedrichs-Shapiro-Erdös-Granville-Tucker-Lorenzini, or

Hilbert-Courant-Robbins-Lalley-Pemantle-Granville-Tucker-Lorenzini.

(A shorter string is provided by the collaboration distance tool in Math Reviews, but it contains a spurious co-authorship.)


How many `Dino Lorenzini' live in the US?


U.S. National Debt : The Outstanding Public Debt as of 24 Apr 2012 is:

 

      $ 15,631,772,810,716.52

 

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.97 billion per day since September 28, 2007. Concerned?


 

 



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