César Camacho

{{Short description|Peruvian-Brazilian mathematician (born 1943)}}

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| name = César Camacho

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| birth_name = César Leopoldo Camacho Manco

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|03|15}}

| birth_place = Lima, Lima

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| nationality = Peruvian

| citizenship = {{hlist|Peru|Brazil}}

| field = Mathematics

| work_institution = Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada

| alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley

| doctoral_advisor = Stephen Smale

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César Leopoldo Camacho Manco (born 15 April 1943), better known as simply César Camacho, is a Peruvian-born Brazilian mathematician and former director of the IMPA. His area of research is dynamical systems theory.{{cite web |url=http://www.cienciaempauta.am.gov.br/2013/05/cesar-camacho-diretor-do-instituto-nacional-de-matematica-pura-e-aplicada/ |title=César Camacho, do Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada |accessdate=2015-07-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923203400/http://www.cienciaempauta.am.gov.br/2013/05/cesar-camacho-diretor-do-instituto-nacional-de-matematica-pura-e-aplicada/ |archivedate=2015-09-23 }}

Camacho earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971 under the supervision of Stephen Smale.{{MathGenealogy|id=87142|title=César Leopoldo Camacho Manco}}

He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.org.br/~ccamacho |title=Brazilian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2015-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194115/http://www.abc.org.br/~ccamacho |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }} and a recipient of 1996 TWAS Prize.{{Cite web |url=http://twas.org/opportunities/prizes-and-awards |title=Prizes and Awards |date=2016 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}