Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas
Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas (born 1948) is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential geometry and singularity theory. She is a professor at the University of São Paulo.
Education and career
Ruas was born on 5 January 1948, in Lins, São Paulo. She became interested in mathematics through a junior high school mathematics teacher, Râmisa Jorge,[1] and after entering university study in 1967,[2] earned a licenciate in mathematics in 1970 through what is now the Faculty of Science and Letters of the Araraquara campus of São Paulo State University.[1][2]
She became a teaching assistant at the same campus in 1971,[1] while at the same time studying for a master's degree at the University of São Paulo, working there with Gilberto Francisco Loibel; she completed her degree in 1974,[1][2] and was promoted to assistant professor. In 1982 she moved to the University of São Paulo as a professor.[1] She defended her doctoral dissertation, Finity Determinacy and Applications at the University of São Paulo in 1983. It was jointly advised by Luiz Antonio Fávaro and Terence Gaffney.[1][2][3]
She has headed the mathematics department at the University of São Paulo, was a founding member of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, and has organized the biennial Workshop on Real and Complex Singularities in Brazil.[1] She is a coauthor of the book Differential Geometry from a Singularity Theory Viewpoint (World Scientific, 2016, with Shyuichi Izumiya, Maria del Carmen Romero Fuster, and Farid Tari).[4]
Recognition
Ruas is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, elected in 2008,[1][2] and in 2009 was named a commander in the National Order of Scientific Merit.[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas", Membros, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2022-03-28
- ^ a b c d e f Profa. Dra. Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas, Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas, retrieved 2022-03-28; see also linked curriculum vitae on CNPq
- ^ Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of Differential Geometry from a Singularity Theory Viewpoint:
- Georges Comte, MR3409029
- Kazım İlarslan (2016), Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics, [1]
- Hirokazu Nishimura, Zbl 1369.53004
