Paulo Ribenboim (born March 13, 1928) is a
Brazilian-Canadian mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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who specializes in
number theory
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Biography
Ribenboim was born into a
Jewish
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family in
Recife
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, Brazil. He received his BSc in mathematics from the
University of São Paulo
The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the bes ...
in 1948, and won a fellowship to study with
Jean Dieudonné in France at the
University of Nancy
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in the early 1950s, where he became a close friend of
Alexander Grothendieck.
He has contributed to the theory of
ideals and of
valuations.
Ribenboim has authored 246 publications including 13 books. He has been at
Queen's University in
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is located on the north-eastern end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River and at the mouth of the Cataraqui River (south end of the Rideau Canal). The city is midway between To ...
, since the 1960s, where he remains a professor
emeritus.
Jean Dieudonné was one of his doctoral advisors.
Andrew Granville has been a doctoral student of Ribenboim.
The
Ribenboim Prize of the
Canadian Number Theory Association is named in his honor.
Personal life
In 1951, Ribenboim married Huguette Demangelle, a French Catholic woman whom he met in France. The couple have two children and five grandchildren, and have lived in Canada since 1962.
Bibliography
* Paulo Ribenboim (1964) ''Functions, Limits, and Continuity '',
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
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References
External links
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* The Canadian Number Theory Associatio
Ribenboim Prize
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1928 births
Living people
People from Recife
Brazilian Jews
Number theorists
Brazilian emigrants to Canada
Brazilian expatriates in France
Queen's University at Kingston faculty
20th-century Brazilian mathematicians
21st-century Canadian mathematicians