Welington de Melo | |
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Melo in 1973
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Born |
Guapé, Minas Gerais |
17 November 1946
Died | 21 December 2016 | (aged 70)
Nationality | Brazilian |
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 Avila Alejandro Kocsard Maria Pacifico Daniel Smania Edson Vargas |
Known for | Contributions to dynamical systems theory |
Welington Celso de Melo (17 November 1946 – 21 December 2016) was a Brazilian mathematician. Known for his contributions to the dynamical systems theory, he was a full professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada from 1980 to 2016. Melo had written numerous papers, one being a complete description of the topological behavior of 1-dimensional real dynamical systems (co-authored with Marco Martens and Sebastian van Strien). He proved the global hyperbolicity of renormalization for Cr unimodal maps (co-authored with Alberto Pinto and Edson de Faria). He was a recipient of the 2003 TWAS Prize.