Manfredo P do Carmo Author

Manfredo P. do Carmo is Professor Emeritus at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro. He graduated  as a Civil  Engineer in Recife, Brazil and  he completed his PhD, in 1963, under the  supervision of S.S. Chern, at the University of California, Berkeley.  He has held visiting positions  in several universities in Brazil and abroad. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and of TWAS and he received several prizes. Amog them the Almirante Álvaro Alberto prize from the Brazilian Research Council (CNPq), the mathematics Prize of TWAS and the Brazilian National Order of Scientific Merit. He has served as  President of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, as a member of the  Selecting Committee of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and as Chairman of the Mathematics Committee of CAPES, at the Ministry of Education . He has published several research articles  and books  on Differential Geometry. One of his books is  the  well known textbook on Differential Geometry of Curves and Sufaces, that was translated into spanish, german and chinese.