César Camacho

César Leopoldo Camacho Manco (born 15 April 1943), better known as simply César Camacho, is a Peruvian-born Brazilian mathematician and former director of the IMPA. His area of research is dynamical systems theory.^[1]

César Camacho
Camacho in 2015.
Born	César Leopoldo Camacho Manco (1943-03-15) March 15, 1943 (age 81) Lima, Lima
Nationality	Peruvian
Citizenship	Peru Brazil
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Doctoral advisor	Stephen Smale

Camacho earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971 under the supervision of Stephen Smale.^[2]

He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences^[3] and a recipient of 1996 TWAS Prize.^[4]

Selected publications

• C. Camacho, P. Sad. "Invariant varieties through singularities of holomorphic vector fields", Annals of Mathematics, 1982
• C. Camacho, A. L. Neto, P. Sad. "Topological invariants and equidesingularization for holomorphic vector fields", Journal of Differential Geometry, 1984

References

1. "César Camacho, do Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
2. César Leopoldo Camacho Manco at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. "Brazilian Academy of Sciences". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
4. "Prizes and Awards". The World Academy of Sciences. 2016.