Celso Costa

Celso José da Costa (born April 7, 1949 in Congonhinhas) is a Brazilian mathematician working in differential geometry. His research activity has focused in the construction and classification of minimal surfaces embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. He is best known for his discovery of Costa's minimal surface, which was described in 1982.[1]

He earned his Ph.D. from IMPA in 1982 under the supervision of Manfredo do Carmo.[2]

References
  1. Pickover, Clifford A. (2009). The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics. ISBN 9781402757969.
  2. http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=53606


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