Welington de Melo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Welington de Melo

Brazilian mathematician

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1946

Place of Birth: Guapé, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Date of Death: 21-Dec-2016

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Welington Celso de Melo (17 November 1946 – 21 December 2016) was a Brazilian mathematician.
Known for his contributions to dynamical systems theory, he served as full professor at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada from 1980 to 2016.
Melo wrote numerous papers, one being a complete description of the topological behavior of 1-dimensional real dynamical systems (co-authored with Marco Martens and Sebastian van Strien). He proved the global hyperbolicity of renormalization for Cr unimodal maps (co-authored with Alberto Pinto and Edson de Faria).
He was a recipient of the 2003 TWAS Prize.

George Bergman (1943–)

	Alternative names	George M. Bergman
	Description	American university teacher
	Date of birth	22 July 1943
	Location of birth	Brooklyn
	Authority control	: Q16198978 VIAF: 36173960 ISNI: 0000 0001 1054 507X LCCN: n96003979 MGP: 32848 GND: 172970725 WorldCat