Artur Oscar Lopes
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| Born | October 17, 1950 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Education | Ph.D. in Mathematics from IMPA (1977) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Mathematician |
| Employer(s) | UFRGS, Porto Alegre |
| Known for | Work on dynamical systems and ergodic theory |
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| Awards | Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit in mathematics |
Artur Oscar Lopes (born 17 October 1950 in the city of Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian writer[1] and mathematician working on dynamical systems and ergodic theory.[2] He is a professor at UFRGS, Porto Alegre.[3]
He earned his Ph.D. from the IMPA in 1977 under the supervision of Jacob Palis.[4]
He is a recipient of Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit in mathematics.[5] Since 2007 he has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.[2]
He is the author of the textbooks Tópicos de Mecânica Clássica, Cálculo Tensorial, Teoria dos Corpos, and Equações Diferenciais Ordinárias.
Selected publications
[edit]- with A. Freire and R. Mañé: Freire, Alexandre; Lopes, Artur; Mañé, Ricardo (March 1983), "An invariant measure for rational maps", Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, 14: 45–62, doi:10.1007/BF02584744
- Lopes, Artur O. (1989), "The dimension spectrum of the maximal measure", SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 20 (5): 1243–1254, doi:10.1137/0520081
- with G. Contreras and Ph. Thieullen: Contreras, G.; Lopes, A. O.; Thieullen, PH. (October 2001), "Lyapunov minimizing measures for expanding maps of the circle", Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 21 (5): 1379–1409, doi:10.1017/S0143385701001663, hdl:10183/27431, S2CID 37683359
- Lopes, A.O. (October 1993), "The zeta function, non-differentiability of pressure, and the critical exponent of transition", Advances in Mathematics, 101 (2): 133–165, doi:10.1006/aima.1993.1045
References
[edit]- ^ "Folha de S.Paulo - "Desengano" vence Jabuti em "romance" - 22/08/2007". www1.folha.uol.com.br. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
- ^ a b Academia Brasileira de Ciências – Artur Oscar Lopes
- ^ "Artur Oscar Lopes".
- ^ Artur Oscar Lopes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Portal do Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação". mct.gov.br. Archived from the original on 2015-04-18. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
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