Artur Avila: A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

Published: 12 June 2015
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A video profile of the mathematician Artur Avila, whose solutions to ubiquitous problems in chaos theory have earned him Brazil’s first Fields Medal in 2014.

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Artur Avila is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a fellow at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). Read more about the work that won him a 2014 Fields Medal: https://www.quantamagazine.org/201408.... Video produced by the Simons Foundation, with the cooperation of the International Mathematical Union.

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