Welington de Melo | |
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Born | November 17, 1946 Guapé, Minas Gerais |
Nationality | Brazil |
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 Ávila Maria Pacifico Edson Vargas |
Known for | Contributions to dynamical systems theory |
Welington Celso de Melo (born November 17, 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. De 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]