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MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES • An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc. 92 (1) • 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202020191219   copy

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

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Abstract

This essay is a historical exploration of the circumstances, and subsequent mathematical consequences, of the encounter, in 1955, of Maurício M. Peixoto (1921 - 2019) with the work of Henry F. DeBaggis (1916 - 2002) on Structural Stability, Princeton 1952, developing a notion introduced by Alexander A. Andronov and Lev S. Pontrjagin, Gorkii 1937.

Key words
Andronov; DeBaggis; Lefschetz; Peixoto; Structural Stability; Differential Equations

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