Welcome

My warmest welcome to this little corner, whose main aims are:

• to share, via Internet, scientific knowledge and experience;

• to shorten distances between the poor and the rich;

• to approach people and towns all over the world; and

• to get solidarity and tolerance as a common objective.

Actually, I wish from the bottom of my heart that the tragic distinction north-south be more and more diffuse.

All people know that Spanish language is so important as the English one, so I wish to pay homage to the language with which good old Sancho warned to Don Quixote: You can tell, my Sir, it's having some effect.

• First steps

I was born in Orihuela, su pueblo y el mío, the village where the great poet Miguel Hernández was also born. And also there, in the Santo Domingo school, an old Literary University, I accomplished my secondary studies.

• At Granada

As for going to the university, I were in doubt between Granada and Valencia. However, I made just the right choice with the former. Why? Because, among other many things, I met there (1) my wife; (2) those friends who ever you are close to you; (3) my Ph. D. adviser. Anything else? I finished Mathematics at the same time as Manolo Barros and Francis Urbano, and we all became members of the Department of Geometry and Topology with a great deal of youthful enthusiasm that allowed us to dream that someday we would get to be doctors. However, we spent most of our time teaching, in the morning, and visiting Prince's Field in the evening. We were lucky to meet professor Naveira, the teacher (since then and for ever), who only remained in Granada a course, although it was enough to point us the right way.

• At Valencia

I arrived here with a research grant to start my Ph. D. A really hard stage: new atmosphere, new colleagues and very bad facilities. The area of Geometry and Topology was located in the old chapel of the Faculty and, of course, the office of the head of Department, Prof. Naveira, was closest to the altar. There I met with another one of my folks, Vicente Miquel, who then were working hard about the series expansion of the volume functions. I finished my Ph. D. and I learned the famous sentence of my adviser: “Now, you have to fly alone”. Paco Carreras was also there, so among the three all, but with a spirit of determination from Vicente, we made some things very interesting. Also I learned to organize congresses, the famous of Peñíscola ones. And finally I became Profesor Titular. There my son and daughter were born.

• At Murcia

To undergo a change is not easy. But three wonderful coincidences happened here that marked my future: Manolo came quickly to help me; Pascual was future hope; and Salva got luckily back to the university. The rest, it's easy as pie. Right away Luis joined us. What times they were! All of them help me to get Professor, which happened agreeing with the annals of the glorious America's Discovery V Centennial. My incursions in the university administration are reduced to Vicedean in the old Faculty of Chemistry and Mathematics; Vicechancellor for Research; and Vicechancellor for Innovation and Development. I was founder and the first president of the Academy of Sciences of the Murcia Region. In short, I am very happy in Murcia and no longer I move from here, because we are a very nice team and I feel quite close to those who always you can find.

• The best :

• My folks here

Pascual Lucas, Luis J. Alías, Miguel A. Meroño, Mª Angeles Hernández Cifre, José A. Pastor, Angel Giménez, Miguel A. Javaloyes, Alma Albujer, Eugenia Saorín, Bernardo Gonzalez, Irene Ortiz and Jesús Yepes. As well as Salva Segura and Pablo Mira, of course.

• My folks from there

Pointing to the south: Manolo Barros, Alfonso Romero and Miguel Sanchez; and pointing to the north: Antonio M. Naveira (in memoriam. He passed away on September 24, 2021), Vicente Miquel, Paco Carreras and Olga Gil.

• My folks further away

Luis Hervella, Eduardo García-Río, Elena Vázquez, Ana Tarrío and Oscar Garay (in memoriam. He passed away on May 4, 2021).

• My folks from abroad

David L. Johnson (Lehigh Univ), Bennett Palmer (Idaho State Univ, Pocatello), José Alfredo Jiménez (el gran Alfredito, Penn State Univ at Hazleton), Jemal Guven (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM) and Luiz C. Garcia de Andrade (UERJ).