Welington de Melo is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Welington de Melo as Brazilian mathematician (1946-2016).
Welington de Melo was born at Guapé in 1946. His recorded nationality is Brazil. He studied at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada.
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.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
The honours record reads: Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit and TWAS Prize for Mathematics (2003).
That the work was done from Brazil matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Welington de Melo died in 2016, aged 70. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit
- TWAS Prize for Mathematics — 2003
- Held posts at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
- Fields: mathematics
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