The Brazilian Mathematical Society ( pt, Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática, SBM) is a professional association founded in 1969 at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada to promote

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

education in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

Presidents

*1969–1971 Chaim Samuel Honig *1971–1973

Manfredo do Carmo Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo (15 August 1928, Maceió – 30 April 2018, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian mathematician. He spent most of his career at IMPA and is seen as the doyen of differential geometry in Brazil. Education and career Do Car ...

*1973–1975

Elon Lages Lima Elon Lages Lima (July 9, 1929 – May 7, 2017) was a Brazilian mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil. ...

*1975–1977

Maurício Peixoto Maurício Matos Peixoto, (April 15, 1921, in Fortaleza, Ceará – April 28, 2019, in Rio de Janeiro), was a Brazilian engineer and mathematician. He pioneered the studies on structural stability, and was the author of Peixoto's theorem. Biograp ...

*1977–1979 Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo *1979–1981

Jacob Palis __NOTOC__ Jacob Palis Jr. (born 15 March 1940) is a Brazilian mathematician and professor. Palis' research interests are mainly dynamical systems and differential equations. Some themes are global stability and hyperbolicity, bifurcations, a ...

*1981–1983

Imre Simon Imre Simon (August 14, 1943 – August 13, 2009) was a Hungarian-born Brazilian mathematician and computer scientist. His research mainly focused on theoretical computer science, automata theory, and tropical mathematics, a subject he founded, ...

*1983–1985 Geraldo Severo de Souza Ávila *1985–1987 Aron Simis *1987–1989 César Camacho *1989–1991

Keti Tenenblat Keti Tenenblat (born 27 November 1944 in Izmir, Turkey) is a Turkish- Brazilian mathematician working on Riemannian geometry, the applications of differential geometry to partial differential equations, and Finsler geometry. Together with Chuu-L ...

*1991–1993 César Camacho *1993–1995 Márcio Gomes Soares *1995–1997 Márcio Gomes Soares *1997–1999 Paulo Domingos Cordaro *1999–2001 Paulo Domingos Cordaro *2001–2003 Suely Druck *2003–2005 Suely Druck *2005–2007 João Lucas Marques Barbosa *2007–2009 João Lucas Marques Barbosa *2009–2011 Hilário Alencar *2011–2013 Hilário Alencar *2013–2015

Marcelo Viana Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva (born 4 March 1962) is a Brazilian mathematician working in dynamical systems theory. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1993. He received the TWAS Prize in 1998 and in 2005 he was awarded the inaugural ICTP Ramanujan P ...

*2015–2017 Hilário Alencar *2017– Paolo Piccione

Awards and prizes

The SBM distributes many prizes, including the

Brazilian Mathematical Society Award The Brazilian Mathematical Society Award is the highest award for mathematical expository writing. It consists of a prize of R$20,000 and a certificate, and is awarded biennial by the Brazilian Mathematical Society in recognition of an outstanding ...

and the Elon Lages Lima Award.

Publications

Journals: * '' Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society'' * ''Eureka!'' * ''Matemática Contemporânea'' * ''Ensaios Matemáticos'' * ''Matemática Universitária'' * ''Professor de Matemática Online'' * ''Revista do Professor de Matemática''

External links

SBM - Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática (Official website)
Organizations established in 1969 Mathematical societies Scientific organisations based in Brazil {{Edu-org-stub

Presidents

Awards and prizes

Publications

See also

External links