List of Brazilian mathematicians

This list of Brazilian mathematicians includes the famous mathematicians from Brazil and also those who were born in other countries but later became Brazilians.

Name Image Born Died Notes
Carolina Araujo 5 Sep 1976
Niterói
The only tenured woman researcher at IMPA
Artur Ávila 29 Jun 1979[1][2]
Rio de Janeiro[1]
Work on dynamical systemsFields Medal winner
Manfredo do Carmo 15 Aug 1928[3]
Maceió[3]
30 Apr 2018
Rio de Janeiro
Work on differential geometry, author of popular textbooks
Walter Carnielli 11 Jan 1952
Campinas
Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro 17 Apr 1952
Recife
Celso José da Costa 7 Apr 1949
Congonhinhas
Discovered Costa's minimal surface
Newton da Costa 16 Sep 1929
Curitiba
Logician
César Camacho 15 Apr 1943
Lima
Marcos Dajczer 19 Nov 1948
Buenos Aires
Francisco Antônio Dória 1945[4]
Rio de Janeiro
Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo 2 Apr 1934
Limoeiro do Norte
Noted for his researches on differential equations
Leopoldo Penna Franca 7 Apr 1959
Rio de Janeiro
19 Sep 2012
Rio de Janeiro
Arnaldo Garcia 1950
Valença
Fernando Q. Gouvêa 13 Nov 1957[5]
São Paulo
MAA's Lester R. Ford Award winner
Alfredo Noel Iusem 10 Nov 1949
Buenos Aires
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa 27 Aug 1963[6][7]
Marília[6]
Elon Lages Lima 9 Jul 1929
Maceió
7 May 2017
Rio de Janeiro
Topologist and geometer, teacher and author of textbooks
Artur Oscar Lopes 17 Oct 1950
Rio de Janeiro
Ricardo Mañé 14 Jan 1948[3]
Montevideo[3]
9 Mar 1995
Montevideo
Fernando Codá Marques 8 Oct 1979
São Carlos
Work on differential geometry, co-author of the first proof of the Willmore conjecture
Carlos Matheus 1 May 1984
Aracaju
Júlio César de Mello e Souza 6 May 1895[8]
Rio de Janeiro
18 Jun 1974[8]
Recife
The Malba Tahan
Welington de Melo 17 Nov 1946[9]
Guapé
21 Dec 2016
Rio de Janeiro
Raimundo Teixeira Mendes 5 Jan 1855[10]
Caxias
1927[11][12][13]
Rio de Janeiro
Carlos Gustavo Moreira 8 Feb 1973
Rio de Janeiro
Leopoldo Nachbin 7 Jan 1922[14]
Recife
3 Apr 1993[14]
Rio de Janeiro
Introduced Nachbin's theorem and did important work on Hewitt–Nachbin spaces
Antonio Carbonari Netto 
Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes Known for her work on partial differential equations for fluid dynamics
Valeria de Paiva 20th century
Brazil
Jacob Palis 15 Mar 1940
Uberaba
Work on dynamical systemsBalzan Prize winner
Maurício Peixoto 15 Apr 1921[15][16]
Fortaleza
28 Apr 2019[16]
Rio de Janeiro
Introduced Peixoto's theorem
Paulo Pinheiro 1967
Rio de Janeiro
Enrique Pujals 3 Jul 1967
Argentina
Paulo Ribenboim 13 Mar 1928[17]
Recife
Ruy de Queiroz 11 Jan 1958
Recife
Aron Simis 20 Jun 1942[3]
Recife
Imre Simon 14 Aug 1943
Budapest
13 Aug 2009
São Paulo
Joaquim Gomes de Souza 15 Feb 1829
Itapecuru Mirim
1 Jun 1864
London
Pioneer in mathematical research in Brazil
Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello 25 Mar 1942[7]
Lima
7 Jan 2022[18]
Rio de Janeiro[18]
Keti Tenenblat 27 Nov 1944
İzmir
Marcelo Viana 4 Mar 1962[19]
Rio de Janeiro
José Felipe Voloch 13 Feb 1963
Rio de Janeiro

See also

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