Fernando Q. Gouvêa

Fernando Quadros Gouvêa (born November 13, 1957 ) is a Brazilian mathematician who deals with number theory.

Gouvea obtained his mathematics diploma from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME) of the University of Sao Paulo and received his PhD in 1987 from Harvard University with Barry Mazur ( Arithmetic of p-adic modular forms ). He then taught at the University of Sao Paulo and Queen's University in Kingston (Ontario) and is a professor at Colby College in Waterville (Maine) .

In 1995 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award .

Fonts

P-adic numbers: an introduction , Springer Verlag, 1997, 2nd edition 2003 (Universitext)
Arithmetic of p-adic modular forms , Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Volume 1304, 1988
with William P. Berlinghoff Math through the ages , Oxton House Publishers, 2002, extended new edition 2004
with Noriko Yui Arithmetic of diagonal hypersurfaces over finite fields , London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes, Volume 209, Cambridge University Press 1995

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SURNAME	Gouvêa, Fernando Q.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Quadros Gouvêa, Fernando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1957

[1] Fernando Q. Gouvêa in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

[2] For A marvelous proof , Amer. Math. Monthly 101 (1994): 203-222. On the proof of the Fermat conjecture by Andrew Wiles .