A Brazilian received at dawn this Wednesday, August 13, the Fields Medal, considered the largest Mathematics award in the world for countries on the American continent, equivalent to a prize Nobel. The 35-year-old mathematician Artur Ávila was awarded with three more researchers during the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, South Korea.
The medal was awarded to Artur Ávila for his contributions to the theory of one-dimensional dynamical systems, which studies the behavior of systems subject to constant change. The Brazilian is also recognized for his studies related to the theory of renormalization, which played a fundamental role in particle physics and statistical physics.
Career
Since he was young, Artur Ávila has been prominent in Mathematics studies. At age 13, in 1992, he was bronze at the Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad (OBM) and gold in the following three years. He was also first place at the Ibero-American, Southern Cone and International Olympics in 1995. He received the Salem Prize, in 2006, Prize of the European Mathematical Society, in 2008, Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the Academy of Sciences of France, in 2009, and Michael Brin Prize, in 2011.
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During high school he also attended postgraduate classes at the National Institute of Pure Mathematics and Applied (Inpa), where he completed his master's degree along with high school and currently holds the position of director of research. Artur did not attend an undergraduate course and went straight to Impa's doctorate, working on his thesis at the age of 19 and starting postdoctoral at 21, at the National Center for Scientific Research, in France, where he also holds the position of director of research. Artur Ávila lives for six months in Paris and six months in Rio de Janeiro.
Artur Ávila's achievement was congratulated by President Dilma Rousseff. In her account on the social network Twitter, Dilma stated that this “world recognition fills Brazilian science and all of Brazil with pride”. Avila was chosen, among other reasons, for his work with the dynamic systems area, better known as the chaos theory, which seeks to describe and predict how all systems that change over time evolve,” she commented to president
Adriano Lesme
*with information from Agência Brasil