On Maurício M. Peixoto and the arrival of Structural Stability to Rio de Janeiro, 1955

Abstract

This essay is a historical exploration of the circumstances, and subsequent mathematical consequences,

Reminiscences of a Mathematical Sojourn at San Marcos, 1959 - 61, and at IMPA, 1962.

“…Peixoto recounted how he had discovered the reef of Structural Stability in the works of the Russian mathematicians Andronov and Pontrjagin and how, subsequently, he had met the great mathematician Solomon Lefschetz, who had also played a role in Peixoto's interest in his field of research. See the essay [23] for an elaborations of the author on this subject.…”