Elon Lages Lima

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Elon Lages Lima (born July 9, 1929 in Maceió ; † May 7, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian mathematician who studied algebraic topology. He was a professor at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada , whose director he was several times.

Life

Lima initially worked as a teacher and graduated from the University of Rio de Janeiro in 1953 with a degree in mathematics. In 1958 he received his doctorate from the University of Chicago under Edwin Spanier (Duality and Postnikov invariants). In his dissertation he introduced the spectrum concept into homotopy theory. This was taken up by Spanier and in the early 1960s by Michael Atiyah and George W. Whitehead and by J. Michael Boardman in his dissertation.

He received the Jabuti Prize for his books and the Anisio Texeira Prize from the Minister of Education. He also received the Grand Cross of the Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico . He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the Third World Academy of Sciences . He was a Guggenheim Fellow .

Among his 25 books are a number of school books and in the 1990s he coordinated the teacher training program at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). He was a member of the National Education Council in Brazil. From 1987 to 1991 he was on the council of the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation ( FAPERJ ), which supports education in Rio.

Fonts

  • Common singularities of commuting vector fields on 2-manifolds , Comment. Math. Helvet., Volume 39, 1964, 97-110
  • with Manfredo do Carmo Immersions of manifolds with non negative sectional curvature , Bol. Soc. Brazil. Math. 2, 1971, 9-22
  • Stable Postnikov invariants and their duals . Summa Brasil. Math. 4, 1960, 193-251.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morre no Rio o matemático Elon Lages Lima, ex-diretor do IMPA, aos 87 anos. In: Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). May 7, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ Elon Lages Lima: Mathematics Genealogy Project. In: nodak.edu. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
  3. ^ Lima The Spanier - Whitehead duality in new homotopy categories , Summa Brasil. Math. 4, 1959, 91-148, Stable Postnikov invariants and their duals , Summa Brasil. Math. 4, 1960, 193-251.
  4. ↑ As well as a three-volume textbook on real analysis and textbooks on fundamental groups of superpositions and homology.
personal data
SURNAME Lima, Elon Lages
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Maceió , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2017
Place of death Rio de Janeiro , Brazil