Paulo Ribenboim

 ( 1928 Births ) 

Paulo Ribenboim (born March 13, 1928) is a Brazilian-Canadian mathematician who specializes in number theory.

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Biography Ribenboim was born into a Jewish family in Recife, Brazil. He received his BSc in mathematics from the University of São Paulo in 1948, and won a fellowship to study with Jean Dieudonné in France at the University of Nancy in the early 1950s, where he became a close friend of Alexander Grothendieck. He has contributed to the theory of ideals and of valuations.P. Ribenboim: Sur une conjecture de Krull en théorie des valuations. In: Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 9 (1955), S. 87–97,

Ribenboim has authored 246 publications including 13 books. He has been at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, since the 1960s, where he remains a professor emeritus.

Jean Dieudonné was one of his doctoral advisors. Andrew Granville, Jan Minac, Karl Dilcher and Aron Simis have been doctoral students of Ribenboim.

The Ribenboim Prize of the Canadian Number Theory Association is named in his honor.

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Personal life In 1951, Ribenboim married Huguette Demangelle, a French Catholic woman who he met in France. The couple have two children and five grandchildren, and have lived in Canada since 1962.

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Bibliography

• Paulo Ribenboim (1964) Functions, Limits, and Continuity , John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Paulo Ribenboim (1969). 9780470718056, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470718056
• Paulo Ribenboim (1972). 9780471718048, Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 9780471718048
• Paulo Ribenboim (1972). 9782705656652, Hermann. ISBN 9782705656652
• Paulo Ribenboim. (1989). 9780387970424, Springer. ISBN 9780387970424
• Paulo Ribenboim. (1995). 9780387904320, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387904320
• Paulo Ribenboim. (1996). 9780387944579, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387944579
• (1997). 9780889117358, Queens Univ Campus. ISBN 9780889117358
• Paulo Ribenboim. (1999). 9780387975085, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387975085
• Paulo Ribenboim. (1999). 9780387985251, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387985251
• Paulo Ribenboim. (2025). 9780387989112, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387989112
• Paulo Ribenboim. (2025). 9780387985084, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387985084
• Paulo Ribenboim. (2025). 9780387950709, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387950709
• Paulo Ribenboim. (2025). 9780387201696, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 9780387201696
• Paulo Ribenboim. (2025). 9789814725811, World-Scientific. ISBN 9789814725811

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External links

• The Canadian Number Theory Association Ribenboim Prize

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