Maurício Matos Peixoto worked in mathematics at a period when the field's own foundations were under discussion.
The record lists Maurício Matos Peixoto as Brazilian mathematician (1921–2019).
Maurício Matos Peixoto was born at Fortaleza in 1921. His recorded nationality is Brazil. He studied at Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and University of Chicago.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
A theorem is permanent in a way no experiment can be, which raises the standard for entry.
The honours record reads: TWAS Prize for Mathematics (1986).
That the work was done from Brazil matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Maurício Matos Peixoto died in 2019, aged 98. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- TWAS Prize for Mathematics — 1986
- Held posts at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
