Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez is a Chilean

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who works as a professor at the

University of Talca The University of Talca ( es, Universidad de Talca) is a Chilean university located in the cities of Talca, Curicó, Linares, Santa Cruz and Santiago. Its headquarters and largest campus are located in the city of Talca. It is part of the Chilea ...

.. He earned his Ph.D. in 1970 from

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, under the joint supervision of Robert W. Berger and Manfred Knebusch. His research interest is in

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. Baeza became a member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences in 1983.Member profile
Chilean Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2015-01-12. He was the 2009 winner of the Chilean National Prize for Exact Sciences.. In 2012, he became one of the inaugural

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s of the

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, the only Chilean to be so honored.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2015-01-12.

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