José Felipe Voloch (born 13 February 1963, in

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) is a Brazilian

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

who works on

number theory Number theory is a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers and arithmetic functions. Number theorists study prime numbers as well as the properties of mathematical objects constructed from integers (for example ...

and

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

. He has been a professor at the

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since 2016.

Career

Voloch earned his Ph.D. from the

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in 1985 under the supervision of John William Scott Cassels. He was a professor at the

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Awards

He is a member of the

Brazilian Academy of Sciences Brazilian commonly refers to: * Brazil, a country * Brazilians, its people * Brazilian Portuguese, its dialect Brazilian may also refer to: * "The Brazilian", a 1986 instrumental music piece by Genesis * Brazilian Café, Baghdad, Iraq (1937) * Bra ...

.Brazilian Academy of Sciences

Selected publications

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*https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r0Jun08AAAAJ Brazilian mathematicians 1963 births Living people People from Rio de Janeiro (city) Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences Number theorists Algebraic geometers University of Texas at Austin faculty Alumni of the University of Cambridge Brazilian expatriate academics in the United States {{Brazil-academic-bio-stub