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Travels in Latin America. |
Travels in Europe. |
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| In addition to living for three years in Venezuela (1973-75) and for a half a year in Columbia (1977), I have traveled extensively in Latin America. In 1984, I visited Machu Picchu, Cuzco, and Lima in Peru. In Mexico, I have visited Oaxaca, the Yucatán and Mexico City many, many times. I spend most of my time in Mexico City at the National Museum of Anthropology. Collette and I have traveled to such ancient Maya sites in the Yucatan such as Cobá, Xel-Ha, Tulum, Chichén Itzá, Dzibilchaltún, Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, Labná, and the Cave at Loltún. In the state of Chiapas, I have visited the Maya centers at Palenque, Yaxchilán, and Bonampak, with its beautiful frescos, Near Oaxaca, I have visited Monte Albán, Mitla, Dainzu, Yaagul, and Lambityeco. Around Mexico City, I have been many times to Teotihuacán and the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlán ( where Mexico City now sits). In 1974, I visited San José in Costa Rica and Guatemala City and Lake Atitlán in Guatemala, and, in 1973, visited Puerto Rico, Martinique, Grenada, Santa Lucia, St. Thomas, and Curacao. Of cmyse, at the end of 1997, Collette and I travelled to my most favorite place -- Oaxaca, Mexico, for the AMS Meetings with the SMM. I had the opportunity to visit the outlying towns of Atzompa, San Miguel de Tecajate and San Bartolo where I bought absouletly fantastic handicrafts; a carved psychadelic dragon of copal wood, an exquisite black pottery vase, many Mexican masks, and a priceless, ceramic Christmas creche. In 2000, I plan to visit the Maya sites at Copán, Quiriquá, and Tikal in Guatemala. | In
1998, I was lucky enough to have been invited to present a mathematic
research paper on the Goldberg Conjecture and chair a Session of Research
Papers at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, Germany.
At this quadrennial Congress, the Fields Medals are given to the greatest
mathematicians. At this particular time, a special (quantum) Fields
Medal was struck and given to Andrew Wiles, of Princeton University,
for his resolution of Fermat's Last Theorem. I had a wonderful week
in Berlin, visiting the Volks Museum with its Pre-Columbian Art holdings.
I went for a fabulous celebratory dinner at Banberger Reiter, the best
restaurant in Berlin. I then went to Trechtingshausen, northeast of
Frankfurt, on the Rhine River, where I lived for a week at the Castle
Burg Reichenstein. Unbelievable! The Rhine passed almost beneath my
bedroom window. From the castle, I visited the very interesting ancient
Roman town of Treir and the castle at Hiedelburg. Collette and I spent
two days in Idar-Oberstein, visiting the many Gem & Mineral Museums
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I both had separately visited Europe many times. I had been to Belgium for research with Prof. Lieven Vanhecke in Leuven in 1979 and in 1976. In 1980, I worked at the Univ. of Warwick, in Coventry, England on my way to Jena, East Germany, where I particpated in the Ninth International Conferenec on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR9). I had traveled in 1985 to England, after a few days in Chewton Glen, Dorset, and in Bath. |
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