Welington de Melo

Welington de Melo
Born November 17, 1946 (1946-11-17) (age 65)
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]

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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