Celso José da Costa (born April 7, 1949 in Congonhinhas) is a Brazilian writer and mathematician who worked 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.
[1] He earned his Ph.D. from IMPA in 1982 under the supervision of Manfredo do Carmo.
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