Celso_José_da_Costa

Celso Costa

Celso Costa

Brazilian mathematician

Celso José da Costa (born April 7, 1949 in Congonhinhas) is a Brazilian writer and mathematician who worked in differential geometry. His research activity has focused in the construction and classification of minimal surfaces embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. He is best known for his discovery of Costa's minimal surface, which was described in 1982.[1]

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He earned his Ph.D. from IMPA in 1982 under the supervision of Manfredo do Carmo.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Pickover, Clifford A. (2009). The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics. Sterling Publishing Company. ISBN 9781402757969.
  2. [2]
    Celso José Da Costa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


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