The Brazilian Mathematical Society (, SBM) is a professional association founded in 1969 at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada to promote

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education in

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Presidents

*1969–1971

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*1971–1973

Manfredo do Carmo Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo (15 August 1928, Maceió – 30 April 2018, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian mathematician. He spent most of his career at IMPA and is seen as the doyen of differential geometry in Brazil. Education and career Do Ca ...

*1973–1975 Elon Lages Lima *1975–1977

Maurício Peixoto Maurício Matos Peixoto, (April 15, 1921 – April 28, 2019), was a Brazilian engineer and mathematician. He pioneered the studies on structural stability, and was the author of Peixoto's theorem. Biography Maurício Peixoto, born in Fortaleza ...

*1977–1979 Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo *1979–1981

Jacob Palis Jacob Palis Jr. (15 March 1940 – 7 May 2025) was a Brazilian mathematician and professor. Palis's research interests were mainly dynamical systems and differential equations. Some themes are global stability and hyperbolicity, bifurcations, ...

*1981–1983

Imre Simon Imre Simon (August 14, 1943 – August 13, 2009) was a Hungarian-born Brazilian mathematician and computer scientist. His research mainly focused on theoretical computer science, automata theory, and tropical mathematics, a subject he founded, ...

*1983–1985 Geraldo Severo de Souza Ávila *1985–1987

Aron Simis Aron Simis is a mathematician born in Recife, Brazil in 1942. He is a full professor at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, and Class A research scholarship recipient from the Brazilian Research Council. He earned his PhD from Queen's ...

*1987–1989 César Camacho *1989–1991

Keti Tenenblat Keti Tenenblat (born 27 November 1944) is a Turkish- Brazilian mathematician working on Riemannian geometry, the applications of differential geometry to partial differential equations, and Finsler geometry. Together with Chuu-Lian Terng, she gen ...

*1991–1993 César Camacho *1993–1995 Márcio Gomes Soares *1995–1997 Márcio Gomes Soares *1997–1999 Paulo Domingos Cordaro *1999–2001 Paulo Domingos Cordaro *2001–2003

Suely Druck Suely Druck is a Brazilian mathematician and two-time president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. Life and work Suely Druck holds a degree in Mathematics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1970) and a master's degree in Mathema ...

*2003–2005

*2005–2007 João Lucas Marques Barbosa *2007–2009 João Lucas Marques Barbosa *2009–2011 Hilário Alencar *2011–2013 Hilário Alencar *2013–2015

Marcelo Viana Marcelo Miranda Viana da Silva (born 4 March 1962) is a Brazilian mathematician working in dynamical systems theory. He proved the Zorich–Kontsevich conjecture together with Artur Avila. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1993. He received the TWAS ...

*2015–2017 Hilário Alencar *2017–2023 Paolo Piccione *2023–2025 Jaqueline Godoy Mesquita

Awards and prizes

The SBM distributes many prizes, including the

Brazilian Mathematical Society Award The Brazilian Mathematical Society Award is the highest award for mathematical expository writing. It consists of a prize of R$20,000 and a certificate, and is awarded biennial by the Brazilian Mathematical Society in recognition of an outstanding ...

and the Elon Lages Lima Award.

Publications

Journals: * ''

Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society The ''Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all areas of mathematics. It is the official journal of the Brazilian Mathematical Society and is published on their behalf by Springer ...

'' * ''Eureka!'' * ''Matemática Contemporânea'' * ''Ensaios Matemáticos'' * ''Matemática Universitária'' * ''Professor de Matemática Online'' * ''Revista do Professor de Matemática''

External links

SBM - Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática (Official website)
Organizations established in 1969 Mathematical societies Scientific organisations based in Brazil {{Math-org-stub

Presidents

Awards and prizes

Publications

See also

External links