Artur Oscar Lopes

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Professor Artur Lopes

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

  • with A. Freire and R. Mañé: "An invariant measure for rational maps", Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, 14: 45–62, March 1983, doi:10.1007/BF02584744

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