The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Brazil
This page contains a list of the greatest Brazilian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Brazil. This makes Brazil the birth place of the 59th most number of Mathematicians behind Vietnam, and Cuba.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Brazilian Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Brazilian Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Artur Avila (b. 1979)
With an HPI of 42.13, Artur Avila is the most famous Brazilian Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 32 different languages on wikipedia.
Artur Avila Cordeiro de Melo (born 29 June 1979) is a Brazilian and naturalized French mathematician working primarily in the fields of dynamical systems and spectral theory. He is one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal, being the first Latin American and lusophone to win such award. He has been a researcher at both the IMPA and the CNRS (working a half-year in each one). He has been a professor at the University of Zurich since September 2018.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Brazilian mathematicians born between 1979 and 1979. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Brazilian mathematicians include Artur Avila.
