List of Brazilian mathematicians
This list of Brazilian mathematicians includes the famous mathematicians from Brazil and also those who were born in other countries but later became Brazilians.
- Carolina Araujo (born 1976), the only tenured woman researcher at IMPA
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- Artur Avila (born 1979), work on dynamical systems, Fields Medal winner
- Manfredo do Carmo (1928–2018), work on differential geometry, author of popular textbooks
- Walter Carnielli (born 1952)
- Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro (born 1952)
- Celso Costa (born 1949), discovered Costa's minimal surface
- Newton da Costa (born 1929), logician
- César Camacho (born 1943)
- Marcos Dajczer (born 1948)
- Francisco Antônio Dória (born 1945)
- Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo (born 1934), noted for his researches on differential equations
- Leopoldo Penna Franca (1959–2012)
- Arnaldo Garcia (born 1950)
- Fernando Q. Gouvêa (born 1957), MAA's Lester R. Ford Award winner
- Alfredo Noel Iusem (born 1949)
- Yoshiharu Kohayakawa (born 1963)
- Elon Lages Lima (1929–2017), topologist and geometer, teacher and author of textbooks
- Artur Oscar Lopes (born 1950)
- Ricardo Mañé (1948–1995)
- Fernando Codá Marques (born 1979), work on differential geometry, co-author of the first proof of the Willmore conjecture
- Carlos Matheus (born 1984)
- Júlio César de Mello e Souza (1895–1974), the Malba Tahan
- Welington de Melo (1946–2016)
- Raimundo Teixeira Mendes (1855–1927)
- Carlos Gustavo Moreira (born 1973)
- Leopoldo Nachbin (1922–1993), introduced Nachbin's theorem and did important work on Hewitt–Nachbin spaces
- Antônio Carbonari Netto
- Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, known for her work on partial differential equations for fluid dynamics
- Valeria de Paiva
- Jacob Palis (born 1940), work on dynamical systems, Balzan Prize winner
- Maurício Peixoto (1921–2019), introduced Peixoto's theorem
- Paulo Pinheiro
- Enrique Pujals
- Paulo Ribenboim (born 1928)
- Ruy de Queiroz (born 1958)
- Aron Simis (born 1942)
- Imre Simon (1943–2009)
- Joaquim Gomes de Souza (1829–1864), pioneer in mathematical research in Brazil
- Jorge Sotomayor Tello (born 1942)
- Keti Tenenblat (born 1944)
- Marcelo Viana (born 1962)
- José Felipe Voloch (born 1963)
See also
- List of mathematicians
- Science and technology in Brazil
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