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Some Recollections of the Early Work of Steve Smale

In: From Topology to Computation: Proceedings of the Smalefest

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  • M. M. Peixoto

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It is for me a great honor and a great pleasure to speak at this Smalefest. I will focus here on the personal and mathematical contacts I had with Steve during the period September 1958–June 1960. From September 1958 to June 1959, I was living in Baltimore and Steve was living in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study. I visited him several times there. In June 1959, I went back to IMPA (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada) in Rio de Janeiro. Steve spent the first six months of 1960 at IMPA and during that period I had daily contacts with him, mathematical and otherwise. This period of Steve’s career is sometimes associated with the “Beaches of Rio” episode. But this episode—originated by an out-of-context reference to a letter of Steve’s—is something that happened in the United States and several years later. It will be mentioned here only indirectly.

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  • M. M. Peixoto, 1993. "Some Recollections of the Early Work of Steve Smale," Springer Books, in: Morris W. Hirsch & Jerrold E. Marsden & Michael Shub (ed.), From Topology to Computation: Proceedings of the Smalefest, chapter 7, pages 73-75, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4612-2740-3_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2740-3_7
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