Paulo Ribenboim (born March 13, 1928) is a
Brazilian-Canadian mathematician
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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 Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil.
The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...
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
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.
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
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, since the 1960s, where he remains a professor
emeritus
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In some c ...
.
Jean Dieudonné was one of his doctoral advisors.
Andrew Granville, Jan Minac, Karl Dilcher and Aron Simis have been doctoral students 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 who 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
University of São Paulo alumni
Brazilian Jews
Number theorists
Brazilian emigrants to Canada
Brazilian expatriates in France
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
20th-century Brazilian mathematicians
21st-century Canadian mathematicians