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Brazilian mathematician
Artur Oscar Lopes
Born (1950-10-17 ) October 17, 1950Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian 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 Notable work
Tópicos de Mecânica Clássica
Cálculo Tensorial
Teoria dos Corpos
Equações Diferenciais Ordinárias
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
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