César Camacho Explained

César Camacho
Birth Name:	César Leopoldo Camacho Manco
Birth Date:	15 March 1943
Birth Place:	Lima, Lima
Nationality:	Peruvian
Field:	Mathematics
Work Institution:	Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Alma Mater:	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral Advisor:	Stephen Smale

César Leopoldo Camacho Manco (born 15 April 1943), better known as simply César Camacho, is a Peruvian-born Brazilian mathematician and former director of the IMPA. His area of research is dynamical systems theory.^[1]

Camacho earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971 under the supervision of Stephen Smale.

He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences^[2] and a recipient of 1996 TWAS Prize.^[3]

Selected publications

• C. Camacho, P. Sad. "Invariant varieties through singularities of holomorphic vector fields", Annals of Mathematics, 1982
• C. Camacho, A. L. Neto, P. Sad. "Topological invariants and equidesingularization for holomorphic vector fields", Journal of Differential Geometry, 1984

Notes and References

1. Web site: César Camacho, do Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada . 2015-07-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923203400/http://www.cienciaempauta.am.gov.br/2013/05/cesar-camacho-diretor-do-instituto-nacional-de-matematica-pura-e-aplicada/ . 2015-09-23 .
2. Web site: Brazilian Academy of Sciences . 2015-07-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194115/http://www.abc.org.br/~ccamacho . 2016-03-03 . dead .
3. Web site: Prizes and Awards . 2016 . The World Academy of Sciences.