On Maurício M. Peixoto and the arrival of Structural Stability to Rio de Janeiro, 1955
Abstract This essay is a historical exploration of the circumstances, and subsequent mathematical consequences, of the encounter, in 1955, of Maurício M. Peixoto (1921 - 2019) with the work of Henry F. DeBaggis (1916 - 2002) on Structural Stability, Princeton 1952, developing a notion introduced by...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Ciências
2020-04-01
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Series: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652020000100301&tlng=en |
Summary: | Abstract This essay is a historical exploration of the circumstances, and subsequent mathematical consequences, of the encounter, in 1955, of Maurício M. Peixoto (1921 - 2019) with the work of Henry F. DeBaggis (1916 - 2002) on Structural Stability, Princeton 1952, developing a notion introduced by Alexander A. Andronov and Lev S. Pontrjagin, Gorkii 1937. |
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ISSN: | 1678-2690 |