Antonio Monteiro (mathematician)
António Aniceto Monteiro | |
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Portrait of newlyweds Antonio Aniceto Monteiro and Lydia Marina de Faria Torres | |
| Born | 1907 |
| Died | 29 October 1980 Bahía Blanca, Argentina |
| Citizenship | Portuguese |
| Alma mater | University of Lisbon Institut Henri Poincaré |
| Known for | Contributions to mathematical logic Founding Portugaliae Mathematica Establishing the Portuguese Mathematical Society |
| Awards | Gulbenkian Science and Technology Prize (1978) Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (2000, posthumous) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Lisbon National Faculty of Philosophy, Rio de Janeiro National University of Cuyo Universidad Nacional del Sur |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice Fréchet |
| Notable students | Hugo Ribeiro José Sebastião e Silva |
António Aniceto Monteiro (31 May 1907–29 October 1980) was a mathematician born in Portuguese Angola who later emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and finally to Argentina in 1950. Monteiro is best known for establishing a school of algebraic logic at Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. His efforts to promote theoretical computer science research in Argentina were less successful.
After his undergraduate studies at the University of Lisbon (completed in 1930), Monteiro obtained a PhD at Sorbonne in 1936 under the advisement of Maurice Fréchet with a thesis in topology. In Portugal Monteiro was the main founder of the journal Portugaliae Mathematica in 1937.
In 1945 Monteiro moved to Brazil. There are two versions of why Monteiro left Portugal. The first version is that Monteiro and other Portuguese mathematicians like Ruy Luís Gomes fell foul of Salazar's regime for their political beliefs; some, like Gomes, were imprisoned; others, like Monteiro, were simply denied employment and practically forced to emigrate. The second version, supported by Monteiro's written documents, is that he was tired of the problems created by his fellow scholars that were blocking his attempts to modernize mathematics in Portuguese universities.
Leopoldo Nachbin was one of Monteiro's Brazilian students. Monteiro's impact on Argentinean mathematics has been compared to that of Julio Rey Pastor.