What is Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada?
{{Infobox university | name = IMPA | image = Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada logo.png | image_size = | established = 1952<ref>Francisco de Oliveira Castro. ''A Matemática no Brasil'', Editora da Unicamp, p. 74.</ref> | type = [[Public university|Public]] | budget = R$222 million<ref>{{cite web|title=Impa Balanço Anual|url=https://impa.br/sobre/acesso-a-informacao/balanco-anual-2/|publisher=IMPA|access-date=1 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701203654/https://impa.br/sobre/acesso-a-informacao/balanco-anual-2/|archive-date=1 July 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> | director = [[Marcelo Viana]] | students = 190 graduate students (2018–2019) | city = [[Rio de Janeiro]] | country = Brazil | campus = Urban | website = {{URL|http://www.impa.br/opencms/en/|impa.br (English)}} | faculty = 130 faculty members and researchers (2018–2019)<ref>{{cite web |title=People |url=https://oglobo.globo.com/rio/instituto-de-matematica-pura-aplicada-tera-novo-campus-em-2021-22519681 |website=O Globo}}</ref> }} The '''Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada''' ('''IMPA'''; English: National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) is the foremost research and educational institution of [[Brazil]] in mathematics. It is in the city of [[Rio de Janeiro]]. It was formerly known simply as ''Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada;'' hence, ''IMPA'' is its official abbreviation. == People from IMPA == [[Artur Avila]], a [[2014 International Congress of Mathematicians|2014]] [[Fields Medal|Fields Medalist]], is a researcher at IMPA and received his Ph.D there.<ref>{{cite news|last=Romero|first=Simon|date=Aug 27, 2014|title=From a Compound in the Brazilian Hills, Excellence in Math Emerges|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/world/americas/from-a-compound-in-the-brazilian-hills-excellence-in-math-emerges.html}}</ref> Among its researchers also are/were Jacob Palis, [[Elon Lages Lima]], Maurício Peixoto, Manfredo do Carmo, Marcelo Viana, Welington de Melo, Enrique Puj