On Maur\'icio M. Peixoto and the arrival of Structural Stability to Rio de Janeiro, 1955
Abstract
This essay is an inquiry about the circumstances, and subsequent mathematical consequences, of the encounter, in 1955, of Maur\'icio 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.
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