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Place of Birth: Congonhinhas, Paraná, Brazil
About 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.He earned his Ph.D.
- from IMPA in 1982 under the supervision of Manfredo do Carmo.
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