Historiography of Mathematics in the Works of Rodolfo Guimarães

✍ Scribed by Luis M.R. Saraiva

• Book ID: 102568592
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0315-0860
• DOI: 10.1006/hmat.1997.2136

✦ Synopsis

Rodolfo Ferreira Dias Guimara ˜es was a leading historian of Portuguese mathematics. Having started his research career with papers on geometry, from 1900 onward he was mainly concerned with the history of Portuguese mathematics. He published a groundbreaking bibliography of Portuguese mathematical works, in accordance with the norms issued by the 1889 International Congress of Bibliography of Mathematical Sciences. This paper will analyze the various aspects of his activity as an historian of mathematics, including his commitment to the international community of mathematicians.