Manfredo do Carmo
Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo (15 August 1928, Maceió – 30 April 2018, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian mathematician. He spent most of his career at IMPA and is seen as the doyen of differential geometry in Brazil.
Manfredo do Carmo | |
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do Carmo in 1979 | |
| Born | 15 August 1928 |
| Died | 30 April 2018 (aged 89) |
| Resting place | Cemitério de São João Batista |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1965, 1968) Prêmio Almirante Álavaro Alberto (1984) Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit (1995) TWAS Prize (1987) AMS Fellow (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada |
| Thesis | The Cohomology Ring of Certain Kahlerian Manifolds (1963) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shiing-Shen Chern |
| Doctoral students | Celso Costa Marcos Dajczer Keti Tenenblat |
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