About Me
My name is Daniel Murfet. I am currently a postdoc at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, in Bonn. I did my PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra (Australia), supervised by Amnon Neeman. For all the exciting details, see my Curriculum Vitae.
My research is on triangulated categories of interest in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra; particularly derived categories of coherent sheaves and singularity categories.
The title of this webpage refers to the following observation of Grothendieck about his approach to solving difficult problems
“A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth of hard marl, resisting penetration…the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it…yet it finally surrounds the resistant substance.“
The translation of this beautiful quote is due to Colin McLarty, from his paper “The Rising Sea: Grothendieck on simplicity and generality I“.
At the moment I am using this site mostly to post online notes on various topics, which may be useful to other graduate students.
Email: my-last-name + @ + math.uni-bonn.de
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