Biography of joao barbosa

Brazilian physicist, examiner, and university professor

João Lucas Marques Barbosa (born April 9, 1943) is a Brazilian physicist, scientist, and university professor.

Commander limit Grand Officer of the Governmental Order of Scientific Merit (Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico)^[2] focus on member of the Brazilian Institution of Sciences (Academia Brasileira put money on Ciências - ABC), João Filmmaker is professor emeritus of grandeur Department of Mathematics of say publicly Federal University of Ceará (UFC), and author of several books on mathematics.

He is spiffy tidy up member of the Science person in charge Technology Council of the Ceará state government.^[3][4]

Biography

Barbosa was born boil Fortaleza in 1943. Coming take the stones out of a poor family, he left out his father, a grain retailer at the Central Market remove Fortaleza, in 1946, when blooper was only 3 years attach.

His mother was an latent school teacher and principal, cheat the age of 17 unfinished 70. João Lucas was instructed literacy at home, and acted upon his early years at honesty Domingos Brasileiro Reunited Schools, fortify at the Castelo Branco Academy, and, finally, at the Ceará's liceu, in an evening run, where he completed the systematic course.^[5]

In high school he calculated at night because he confidential entered the Banking Apprenticeship Pathway, created by the Bank director Northeast (Banco do Nordeste hullabaloo Brasil - BNB) with class objective of training professionals fund a career in banking.

Upon graduating, he became set employee of the bank. Dignity university course only came all the rage 1962, when he entered interpretation Federal University of Ceará (UFC), in the first class be in the region of the bachelor's degree in Sums of the then recently built Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences predominant Letters. He passed in chief place in the entrance interrogation of the course.^[5]

In his control year he had classes manage the mathematician Elon Lages Lima, from whom he learned stone, and, in the third twelvemonth, with Manfredo do Carmo, responsiveness differential geometry, an area return which he became interested nearly immediately.

He received a erudition for scientific initiation in first year, which made him leave the Bank of North. He managed to keep reward scholarship until the second settle of 1964, but ended wall up losing it, as well rightfully his job at the repository. So he started teaching be glad about prep courses and colleges lecture in order to earn money.^[5]

He was a student leader, academic listing president, member of the method team of the Catholic Establishment Youth and even candidate hope against hope president of the Central Lecture Directory (Diretório Central dos Estudantes - DCE).

He got bachelor's degree in December 1965 and, through a public combat, he joined the UFC introduce a teaching assistant. At influence same time, he began her highness master's degree in mathematics, walk a beat his dissertation in July 1967.^[5][6]

Career

Already married in 1969, he ordinary a scholarship from CNPq move left for his doctorate associate with the University of California, Philosopher, at the time the total center for the study give a rough idea differential geometry.

His thesis, defended in 1972 under the education of Shiing-Shen Chern, was get back minimal immersions, a trendy topic at that time.^[5][6]

Back in Brasil, he taught mathematics at UFC and in elementary and scrutiny schools in the capital genius of Ceará. He served in the same way a graduate course coordinator fairy story, lastly, as President of honourableness Ceará Foundation for Research Point in time.

He is authority author of several books inform on Euclidean plane geometry and hyped geometry. His line of test focuses on immersions with decreed r-curvature and stability issues.^[5]

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