Welington de Melo

Welington de Melo

Melo in 1973
Born (1946-11-17) 17 November 1946
Guapé, Minas Gerais
Nationality Brazilian
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Alma mater Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Doctoral advisor Jacob Palis
Doctoral students Artur Avila
Maria Pacifico
Daniel Smania
Edson Vargas
Known for Contributions to dynamical systems theory

Welington Celso de Melo (born 17 November 1946) is a Brazilian mathematician. Known for his contributions to the dynamical systems theory, he has been a full professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada since 1980. Melo has written numerous papers, the most important being a complete description of the topological behavior of 1-dimensional real dynamical systems (co-authored with Marco Martens and Sebastian van Strien).[1]

References

  1. Martens, M.; De Melo, W.; Van Strien, S. (1992), "Julia-Fatou-Sullivan theory for real one-dimensional dynamics", Acta Mathematica 168 (1): 273–318, doi:10.1007/BF02392981.

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