Manfredo do Carmo | |
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Born | |
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 |
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.[1]