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Welington de Melo | |
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![]() Melo in 1973 | |
Born | |
Died | 21 December 2016 | (aged 70)
Nationality | Brazilian |
Alma mater | Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada |
Known for | Contributions to dynamical systems theory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (1974–2016) |
Thesis | Structural Stability of Diffeomorphisms on Two-Manifolds (1973) |
Doctoral advisor | Jacob Palis |
Doctoral students | Artur Avila |
Welington Celso de Melo (17 November 1946 – 21 December 2016) was a Brazilian mathematician. Known for his contributions to dynamical systems theory, he served as full professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada from 1980 to 2016. Melo wrote numerous papers, one being a complete description of the topological behavior of 1-dimensional real dynamical systems (co-authored with Marco Martens and Sebastian van Strien).[1] He proved the global hyperbolicity of renormalization for Cr unimodal maps (co-authored with Alberto Pinto and Edson de Faria).[2] He was a recipient of the 2003 TWAS Prize.[3]