Some Recollections of the Early Work of Steve Smale

M. M. Peixoto

Chapter 7 in From Topology to Computation: Proceedings of the Smalefest, 1993, pp 73-75 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Unstable Manifold; Mathematical Achievments; Transversality Condition; Morse Function; Great Pleasure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-2740-3_7

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