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On the Transmission of Riemann's Ideas to Portugal

✍ Scribed by Jeremy Gray; Eduardo L. Ortiz


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
87 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0315-0860

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✦ Synopsis


is a secondary figure in the history of science in Portugal. His name is not recorded in any of the main biographical encyclopedias on his country, in international compilations such as the detailed work of May (Bibliography and Research Manual of the History of Mathematics, Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1973), or in studies on the history of science and culture in his country. However, he deserves to be remembered as a unique pioneer in the transmission to Portugal of Riemann's work, in particular of Riemann surfaces and the theory of algebraic curves. Although trained within the French tradition, and on friendly terms with French scientists till the end of his life, Figueiredo as a young man turned in the direction of the mathematical ideas then being developed in Germany. His life and work are also interesting from the point of view of the study of the transmission of science to and within peripheral countries and of their choice of foreign models. They suggest that, far from being a slow process of regular diffusion, the transmission of mathematical ideas from leading to peripheral mathematical communities is a complex process with selective sharp advances. Figueiredo was a respected mathematician within the structures of his own country, a professor at the University of Coimbra, who held several official positions in his country and represented it at one of the first international encounters involving science and technology in which peripheral countries took an active participation: the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. C 1999 Academic Press Henrique Manuel de Figueiredo é uma figura de segundo plano na história da ciência em Portugal. Não se encontra qualquer referência ao seu nome, quer nas principais enciclopédias biográficas do seu país, quer em publicações internacionais, tais como o minucioso trabalho de May (Bibliography and Research Manual of the History of Mathematics, Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1973), nem mesmo em estudos sobre a história da ciência e cultura do seu país. Contudo, ele merece ser recordado como pioneiro na divulgação, em Portugal, do trabalho de Riemann, em particular superficies de Riemann e teoria das curvas algébraicas. Apesar da sua formação na escola francesca e de ter mantido laços de amizade com cientistas franceses, durante toda a sua vida, Figueiredo enquanto jovem deixou-se influenciar pelas ideias matemáticas então desenvolvidas na Alemanha. Na sua vida e obra tiveram também um papel importante a divulgação de ciência em países periféricos e o contributo para a escolha de modelos estrangeiros. Parece que a transmissão das ideias matemáticas dos centros principais para as comunidades matematicas periféricas, longe de ser um processo lento e regular, foi antes um processo complexo com progressos altamente irregulares. Figueiredo foi um matemático conceituado nas estruturas do seu próprio país, era Professor na Universidade de Coimbra, ocupou vários cargos oficiais no seu país e representou-o num dos primeiros encontros internacionais de ciência e tecnologia, a Exposição Universal de Paris, em 1900, na qual países periféricos tiveram uma participação activa.


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