Artur Avila
Brazilian and French mathematician (born 1979) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal,[2] being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such award. He has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS (working a half-year in each one). He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Avila and the second or paternal family name is Cordeiro de Melo.
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Born | Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (1979-06-29) 29 June 1979 (age 44) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Fields | Mathematics |
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Thesis | Bifurcações de tranformações unimodais sob os pontos de vistas topológico e métrico (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Welington de Melo |
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