Jorge Aceves Ruiz

He was born in Tapachula, Chiapas, in 1929. He studied medicine at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) [National Autonomous University of Mexico] and pursued his PhD in Physiology and Biophysics at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav) [Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute]. He obtained a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for...

Julián Adem Chahín

He was born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, in 1924. He studied Civil Engineering at the Escuela Nacional de Ingenieros y Matemáticas of the Facultad de Ciencias [National School of Engineering and Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences] of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) [National Autonomous University of Mexico]. He pursued his doctorate degree in applied mathematics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as postdoctoral studies at the...

Larissa Adler Milstein

Larissa Adler Milstein was born in Paris in 1932. She studied Social Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa for excellence. She earned her doctorate in the same discipline at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. She is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, en el departamento de Modelación Matemática de Sistemas Sociales, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)...