César Camacho
César Camacho | |
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Camacho in 2015. | |
| Born | César Leopoldo Camacho Manco March 15, 1943 |
| Nationality | Peruvian |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada |
| 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.
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 and a recipient of 1996 TWAS Prize.