Chaim Samuel Hönig

He was born in Berlin, coming to Brazil as a child. He graduated in Mathematics and Physics from the University of São Paulo, where he also did his PhD. He was in France, first as a postdoctoral student, then for three years as a Visiting Professor.

He is a Full Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at USP, a Full Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the State of São Paulo. He is a member of the CTC of CNPq and was the first President of the Brazilian Mathematical Society.

His research area is Mathematical Analysis (Functional Analysis, Integral-Differential Equations, Sobolev Spaces, Integration), but he has also published research papers in General Topology, Group Theory, etc. He is the author of several undergraduate and graduate texts: “Functional Analysis and Applications” (IME/USP), “Volterra Stieltjes-Integral Equations” (North-Holland Publ. Comp.), Functional Analysis and the Sturm-Liouville Problem (IMPA), Introduction to the Functions of a Complex Variable” (IME/USP) etc. He raises ants and practices the Cooper method.