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This list of Brazilian mathematicians includes the famous mathematicians from Brazil and also those who were born in other countries but later became Brazilians.

Name Image Born Died Notes
Carolina Araujo  Edit this on Wikidata 5 Sep 1976
Niterói
The only tenured woman researcher at IMPA
Artur Ávila  Edit this on Wikidata 29 Jun 1979 [1] [2]
Rio de Janeiro [1]
Work on  dynamical systemsFields Medal winner
Manfredo do Carmo  Edit this on Wikidata 15 Aug 1928 [3]
Maceió [3]
30 Apr 2018
Rio de Janeiro
Work on  differential geometry, author of popular textbooks
Walter Carnielli  Edit this on Wikidata 11 Jan 1952
Campinas
Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro  Edit this on Wikidata 17 Apr 1952
Recife
Celso José da Costa  Edit this on Wikidata7 Apr 1949 [4]
Congonhinhas
Discovered  Costa's minimal surface
Newton da Costa  Edit this on Wikidata 16 Sep 1929
Curitiba [5]
16 Apr 2024Logician
César Camacho  Edit this on Wikidata 15 Apr 1943 [6]
Lima
Marcos Dajczer  Edit this on Wikidata19 Nov 1948
Buenos Aires
Francisco Antônio Dória  Edit this on Wikidata1945 [7]
Rio de Janeiro
Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo  Edit this on Wikidata2 Apr 1934
Limoeiro do Norte
Noted for his researches on differential equations
Leopoldo Penna Franca  Edit this on Wikidata7 Apr 1959
Rio de Janeiro
19 Sep 2012
Rio de Janeiro
Arnaldo Garcia  Edit this on Wikidata1950
Valença
Fernando Q. Gouvêa  Edit this on Wikidata13 Nov 1957 [8]
São Paulo
MAA's  Lester R. Ford Award winner
Alfredo Noel Iusem  Edit this on Wikidata10 Nov 1949 [9]
Buenos Aires
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa  Edit this on Wikidata 27 Aug 1963 [10] [11]
Marília [10]
Elon Lages Lima  Edit this on Wikidata 9 Jul 1929 [12]
Maceió
7 May 2017 [12]
Rio de Janeiro
Topologist and geometer, teacher and author of textbooks
Artur Oscar Lopes  Edit this on Wikidata 17 Oct 1950
Rio de Janeiro
Ricardo Mañé  Edit this on Wikidata14 Jan 1948 [3]
Montevideo [3]
9 Mar 1995
Montevideo
Fernando Codá Marques  Edit this on Wikidata 8 Oct 1979 [13]
São Carlos
Work on  differential geometry, co-author of the first proof of the Willmore conjecture
Carlos Matheus  Edit this on Wikidata 1 May 1984
Aracaju
Júlio César de Mello e Souza  Edit this on Wikidata 6 May 1895 [14]
Rio de Janeiro
18 Jun 1974 [14]
Recife
The  Malba Tahan
Welington de Melo  Edit this on Wikidata 17 Nov 1946 [15]
Guapé
21 Dec 2016
Rio de Janeiro
Teixeira Mendes  Edit this on Wikidata 5 Jan 1855 [16]
Caxias
1927 [17] [18] [19]
Rio de Janeiro
Carlos Gustavo Moreira  Edit this on Wikidata8 Feb 1973 [20]
Rio de Janeiro
Leopoldo Nachbin  Edit this on Wikidata 7 Jan 1922 [21]
Recife
3 Apr 1993 [21] [22]
Rio de Janeiro [22]
Introduced  Nachbin's theorem and did important work on  Hewitt–Nachbin spaces
Antonio Carbonari Netto  Edit this on Wikidata
Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes  Edit this on WikidataKnown for her work on  partial differential equations for  fluid dynamics
Valeria de Paiva  Edit this on Wikidata 13 Jun 1959
Rio de Janeiro [23]
Jacob Palis  Edit this on Wikidata 15 Mar 1940 [24]
Uberaba
Work on  dynamical systemsBalzan Prize winner
Maurício Peixoto  Edit this on Wikidata 15 Apr 1921 [25] [26]
Fortaleza
28 Apr 2019 [26]
Rio de Janeiro [27]
Introduced  Peixoto's theorem
Paulo Pinheiro  Edit this on Wikidata1967
Rio de Janeiro
Enrique Pujals  Edit this on Wikidata3 Jul 1967
Argentina
Paulo Ribenboim  Edit this on Wikidata 13 Mar 1928 [28]
Recife [28]
Ruy de Queiroz  Edit this on Wikidata 11 Jan 1958
Recife
Aron Simis  Edit this on Wikidata 20 Jun 1942 [3]
Recife
Imre Simon  Edit this on Wikidata 14 Aug 1943
Budapest
13 Aug 2009
São Paulo
Joaquim Gomes de Souza  Edit this on Wikidata15 Feb 1829
Itapecuru Mirim
1 Jun 1864
London
Pioneer in mathematical research in Brazil
Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello  Edit this on Wikidata25 Mar 1942 [11]
Lima
7 Jan 2022 [29]
Rio de Janeiro [29]
Keti Tenenblat  Edit this on Wikidata27 Nov 1944 [30]
İzmir
Marcelo Viana  Edit this on Wikidata 4 Mar 1962 [31]
Rio de Janeiro
José Felipe Voloch  Edit this on Wikidata 13 Feb 1963 [32]
Rio de Janeiro


See also

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  8. ^ BnF  124198806
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  11. ^ a b https://www.ime.usp.br
  12. ^ a b https://historygreatest.com/elon-lages-lima-brazilian-mathematician-died-at-87
  13. ^ http://www.abc.org.br/membro/Fernando-Coda-dos-Santos-Cavalcanti-Marques
  14. ^ a b BnF  137621165
  15. ^ GND  110394267
  16. ^ Bruno Delmas (ed.), Annuaire prosopographique : la France savante (in French), Wikidata  Q55740543
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  20. ^ http://www.abc.org.br/membro/Carlos-Gustavo-Tamm-de-Araujo-Moreira
  21. ^ a b BnF  12344091w
  22. ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Leopoldo Nachbin", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  23. ^ https://maa.org/careers/career-profiles/academia-teaching/valeria-de-paiva
  24. ^ https://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Palis_Jacob_EN.pdf
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  26. ^ a b BnF  17265834f
  27. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Maurício Peixoto", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  28. ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Paulo Ribenboim", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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  30. ^ http://www.abc.org.br/membro/Keti-Tenenblat
  31. ^ http://www.abc.org.br/centenario/?Marcelo-Miranda-Viana-da-Silva
  32. ^ http://www.abc.org.br/membro/Jose-Felipe-Voloch