César Leopoldo Camacho Manco (born 15 April 1943 in

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), better known as simply César Camacho, is a

vian-born

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ian

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and former director of the

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. His area of research is

dynamical systems theory Dynamical systems theory is an area of mathematics used to describe the behavior of complex dynamical systems, usually by employing differential equations or difference equations. When differential equations are employed, the theory is called ' ...

. Camacho earned his Ph.D. from the

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in 1971 under the supervision of

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. He is a member of the

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and a recipient of 1996

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Selected publications

*C. Camacho, P. Sad. "Invariant varieties through singularities of holomorphic vector fields", ''

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'', 1982 *C. Camacho, A. L. Neto, P. Sad. "Topological invariants and equidesingularization for holomorphic vector fields", ''

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'', 1984

References

1943 births Living people Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences Dynamical systems theorists People from Lima Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada researchers 20th-century Brazilian mathematicians TWAS laureates {{Brazil-academic-bio-stub