Artur Avila
Brazilian and French mathematician
- This is a Portuguese name; the first family name is Avila and the second is Cordeiro de Melo.
Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian mathematician naturalized French. He works on 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 an award.
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.jpg) Avila at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach in 2012. | |
| Born | Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo 29 June 1979 |
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| Education | Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (PhD and MS) Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BS) |
| Known for | Dynamical systems Spectral theory Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture Ten martini problem |
| Awards | Fields Medal (2014) TWAS Prize (2013) Michael Brin Prize in Dynamical Systems (2011) EMS Prize (2008) Salem Prize (2006) Gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad (1995) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Zurich IMPA, CNRS Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada |
| Thesis | Bifurcações de tranformações unimodais sob os pontos de vistas topológico e métrico (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Welington de Melo |
References
change- ↑ http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~artur/cur.pdf Archived 2014-05-08 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
- ↑ Alex Bellos (13 August 2014). "Fields Medals 2014: the maths of Avila, Bhargava, Hairer and Mirzakhani explained". The Guardian.
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