Arnaldo Garcia Explained

Arnaldo Leite Pinto Garcia (born 1950) is a Brazilian mathematician working on algebraic geometry and coding theory. He is a titular researcher at the IMPA.^[1]

Garcia is a titular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and has received Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit.^[2]

He obtained his Ph.D. at the IMPA in 1980 under the guidance of Karl-Otto Stöhr.^[3]

Selected writings

• A tower of Artin-Schreier extensions of function fields attaining the Drinfeld-Vladut bound
• On the asymptotic behaviour of some towers of function fields over finite fields
• On subfields of the Hermitian function field
• On maximal curves

Notes and References

1. Web site: IMPA - Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada . 2015-07-28 . 2016-11-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161114211810/http://www.impa.br/opencms/pt/pesquisa/pesquisa_pesquisadores/pesquisadores_arnaldo_leite_pinto_garcia/pesquisadores_arnaldo_leite_pinto_garcia.html . dead .
2. Web site: ABC – Academia Brasileira de Ciências. https://web.archive.org/web/20150708063443/http://abc.org.br/~garcia. 2015-07-08.
3. Web site: Arnaldo Garcia - the Mathematics Genealogy Project.