Artur Ávila, most of the golf courses in mathematics and ccedil fran-matic; Facilitate

By Laurent banguet | AFP -

Rio was born and naturalized French since last year, Arturo Avila won the Fields Medal, the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize, in its own way, proves the quality and uniqueness of the French research in this area.

Twelfth-known French mathematician, a medal, winning a lot, every four years, is Arthur Avila actually more of a way of his predecessors.

Cedric Villani like and Franco-Vietnamese Ngo Bau Chau, Fields Medal in 2010, all at one time or another in their career at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in the streets of Ulm, Paris, heir to a long tradition intellectual elite and selection system in the early nineteenth century introduced.

"The French mathematical school was always very good, which has the effect of attracting young people to the sport, then the mechanisms for the selection of elite special place in our countries .. math often go results brightest students this has discipline," says Martin Department of Mathematics, Versailles Andler, the newspaper quoted the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Artur Avila, 35, meanwhile, discovered a mathematical France and glorious past, and later, first as a tourist.

Perhaps his unusual career specialty, "Dynamical Systems" (in recent years), because the planets move and populations, ie the laws of the decision to order or chaos. One of his masterpieces was in the equations for the behavior of billiard balls on the table in a different way set.

Artur Avila student, 16, when he won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1995, giving it out that by a professor at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) discovered in Rio de Janeiro. During high school he began a master at Impa, where he. Until 2001 for his thesis

- "Doing the math on the beach -

It was during this time that he discovered in Paris. "There was a strong tradition of scientific cooperation between France and Brazil, particularly Impa, but not about the excellence of the French school of mathematics know," says a young man in an interview with the CNRS International Magazine.

And if he stay in France, wanted to "This is, first, for personal reasons," he said, without disclosing more about his private life.

Artur Avila twice failing the entrance exam Fortunately CNRS 2001 and 2002, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz the Fields Medal in 1994 and was a "collaboration" scientific Impa River as part of their military service, took him under his protection, and he deserves a place in the College of France.

At last the time of the brilliant Brazilian CNRS 2003 is back and devote himself to the study, hailed as a specificity French in France and abroad.

"This kind of situation is rare or absent in other countries," said John Ball Columbia, Institute of Mathematics of the University of Oxford.

He said that "enjoy the availability of numerous research positions in full-time, so no teaching duties, such as the CNRS, the researchers gave the opportunity for a longer period concentration in the creation and development of new mathematical valuable."

Although American universities tend to attract talented people - France - great fanfare subsidies that play the poorest countries in Africa, Asia and South America French system.

Artur Avila winner in both directions. CNRS bronze medal in 2006, the same year he received a scholarship to the American Clay Mathematics Institute, a global benchmark, you work where he wants to be.

He chose Impa, his hometown, as a result of the joint international unit "to recognize -search, which makes it possible," CNRS "do math in the swimsuit on the beach" for much of the year opened.