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.

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Name	Image	Born	Died	Notes
Carolina Araujo		5 Sep 1976 Niterói		The only tenured woman researcher at IMPA
Artur Ávila		29 Jun 1979[1][2] Rio de Janeiro[1]		Work on dynamical systems, Fields Medal winner
Manfredo do Carmo		15 Aug 1928[3] Maceió[3]	30 Apr 2018 Rio de Janeiro	Work on differential geometry, author of popular textbooks
Walter Carnielli		11 Jan 1952 Campinas
Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro		17 Apr 1952 Recife
Celso José da Costa		7 Apr 1949[4] Congonhinhas		Discovered Costa's minimal surface
Newton da Costa		16 Sep 1929 Curitiba[5]	16 Apr 2024	Logician
César Camacho		15 Apr 1943[6] Lima
Marcos Dajczer		19 Nov 1948 Buenos Aires
Francisco Antônio Dória		1945[7] Rio de Janeiro
Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo		2 Apr 1934 Limoeiro do Norte		Noted for his researches on differential equations
Leopoldo Penna Franca		7 Apr 1959 Rio de Janeiro	19 Sep 2012 Rio de Janeiro
Arnaldo Garcia		1950 Valença
Fernando Q. Gouvêa		13 Nov 1957[8] São Paulo		MAA's Lester R. Ford Award winner
Alfredo Noel Iusem		10 Nov 1949[9] Buenos Aires
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa		27 Aug 1963[10][11] Marília[10]
Elon Lages Lima		9 Jul 1929[12] Maceió	7 May 2017[12] Rio de Janeiro	Topologist and geometer, teacher and author of textbooks
Artur Oscar Lopes		17 Oct 1950 Rio de Janeiro
Ricardo Mañé		14 Jan 1948[3] Montevideo[3]	9 Mar 1995 Montevideo
Fernando Codá Marques		8 Oct 1979[13] São Carlos		Work on differential geometry, co-author of the first proof of the Willmore conjecture
Carlos Matheus		1 May 1984 Aracaju
Júlio César de Mello e Souza		6 May 1895[14] Rio de Janeiro	18 Jun 1974[14] Recife	The Malba Tahan
Welington de Melo		17 Nov 1946[15] Guapé	21 Dec 2016 Rio de Janeiro
Teixeira Mendes		5 Jan 1855[16] Caxias	1927[17][18][19] Rio de Janeiro
Carlos Gustavo Moreira		8 Feb 1973[20] Rio de Janeiro
Leopoldo Nachbin		7 Jan 1922[21] Recife	3 Apr 1993[21][22] Rio de Janeiro[22]	Introduced Nachbin's theorem and did important work on Hewitt–Nachbin spaces
Antonio Carbonari Netto
Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes				Known for her work on partial differential equations for fluid dynamics
Valeria de Paiva		13 Jun 1959 Pouso Alegre[23]
Jacob Palis		15 Mar 1940[24] Uberaba	7 May 2025 Rio de Janeiro	Work on dynamical systems, Balzan Prize winner
Maurício Peixoto		15 Apr 1921[25][26] Fortaleza	28 Apr 2019[26] Rio de Janeiro[27]	Introduced Peixoto's theorem
Paulo Pinheiro		1967 Rio de Janeiro
Enrique Pujals		3 Jul 1967 Argentina
Paulo Ribenboim		13 Mar 1928[28] Recife[28]
Ruy de Queiroz		11 Jan 1958 Recife
Aron Simis		20 Jun 1942[3] Recife
Imre Simon		14 Aug 1943 Budapest	13 Aug 2009 São Paulo
Joaquim Gomes de Souza		15 Feb 1829 Itapecuru Mirim	1 Jun 1864 London	Pioneer in mathematical research in Brazil
Jorge Manuel Sotomayor Tello		25 Mar 1942[11] Lima	7 Jan 2022[29] Rio de Janeiro[29]
Keti Tenenblat		27 Nov 1944[30] İzmir
Marcelo Viana		4 Mar 1962[31] Póvoa de Varzim
José Felipe Voloch		13 Feb 1963[32] Rio de Janeiro