César Camacho

César Leopoldo Camacho Manco (born 15 April 1943 in Lima, Peru), 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
Lima, Lima
NationalityPeru
Citizenship
  • Peru
  • Brazil
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsInstituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Doctoral advisorStephen 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
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References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-07-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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.



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