Artur Oscar Lopes
Brazilian mathematician
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| Intro | Brazilian mathematician | |||
| Places | Brazil | |||
| is | Mathematician | |||
| Work field | Mathematics | |||
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| Birth | 17 October 1950, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |||
| Age | 74 years | |||
| Star sign | Libra | |||
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Artur Oscar Lopes (born 17 October 1950 in the city of Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian mathematician working on dynamical systems and ergodic theory. He is a professor at UFRGS, Porto Alegre.
He earned his Ph.D. from the IMPA in 1977 under the supervision of Jacob Palis.
He is a recipient of Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit in mathematics. Since 2007 he has been a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
He is the author of the textbooks Tópicos de Mecânica Clássica, Cálculo Tensorial, Teoria dos Corpos, and Equações Diferenciais Ordinárias.
Selected publications
- with A. Freire and R. Mañé: "An invariant measure for rational maps", Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, 1983.
- "The dimension spectrum of the maximal measure", SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 1989.
- with G. Contreras and P. Thieullen: "Lyapunov minimizing measures for expanding maps of the circle", Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, 2001.
- "The zeta function, non-differentiability of pressure, and the critical exponent of transition", Advances in Mathematics, 101 (2), pp. 133–165, 1993.