THE WORLD OF MATHEMATICS IN COLOMBIA
Famous Mathematicians
You are now going to learn about Famous Colombian Mathematicians. First of all we would like to start by pointing out what are the characteristics of a mathematician. A mathematician is a person whose main area of study and research is mathematics. In addition, a mathematician is a person who contributes new knowledge to the field of mathematics, for example theorems. Not just because a person is “good” at math will he be considered a mathematician. People who apply mathematics, like engineers, economists, and others working in similar fields, are generally not considered mathematicians.
Dictionary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathematicianS
I am not sure how many countries have the privilege
to say that they have a Great Mathematician, but one thing is for sure Colombia
can!!!
You will now be introduced to three great Colombian mathematicians
from different eras.
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1891. Julio Garavito Armero
received on July 4 the el títle of Civil Engineer and Professor of
Mathematics. |
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1990. Cartoon made by ZAGAR
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Jose Escobar
"Chepe"
JOSE F. ESCOBAR
1954 - 2004
Jose Escobar, better known as "CHEPE", was a colombian mathematician that was known for his contributions in the fields of differential geometry and partial differential equations.He participated in academic programs in Colombia, Brazil and the United States. He completed his mathematical undergraduate program at Universidad del Valle, Colombia. He received a scholarship that permitted him to do a master in science studies in the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He also had the opportunity to get a Ph. D in California at Berkeley, where his doctoral thesis received very good comments from other mathematics specialist.Chepes doctoral thesis was were a series of important works began, in which he developed the theory of the existence of solutions of certain semilineal elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions.Jose Escobar wrote more than 30 papers and books related in the area of mathematics. He also taught at several universities.On January 30th to February 3rd 2006 the Department of Mathematics at the University del Valle (Cali - Colombia), hosted an international conference to honor Professor JOSE FERNANDO ESCOBAR – CHEPE. The topics were focused on Nonlinear Analysis, Differential Geometry and Partial Differential Equations. |
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