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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas", Membros, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2022-03-28
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Profa. Dra. Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas, Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas, retrieved 2022-03-28; see also linked curriculum vitae on CNPq
  3. ↑ Maria Aparecida Soares Ruas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Reviews of Differential Geometry from a Singularity Theory Viewpoint:
    • Georges Comte, MR3409029
    • Kazım İlarslan (2016), Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics,
    • Hirokazu Nishimura, Zbl 1369.53004
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