Germán Ancochea Quevedo. Tribute to a pioneer of Spanish mathematical research (Q6548207)

For researchers in the history of mathematics who wish to investigate the emergence and development of a particular sub-area or speciality of mathematics in the global context, or in their country, such as, for example, the theory of distributions, the theory of dynamical systems, the theory of commutative fields, algebraic geometry -- which in a broad sense includes areas such as complex geometry and arithmetic, algebraic group and representation theory --, some basic questions arise which are as follows: What was the development of these sub-areas or specialities like in the past, and what has it been like in the present? How did the gift come about?\N\NThe purpose of this book is to recover, preserve, and disseminate the history of mathematics in Spain, by addressing the work and solitary efforts of the mathematician Germán Ancochea Quevedo, to create in Spain, from the 1940s onwards, a good environment for teaching, training students and research in mathematics, particularly in his area of work that addressed projective spaces, projective geometry, semi-automorphisms of division algebras, generalized valuations, differential geometry, algebraic geometry -- his doctoral thesis entitled ``Cartan's methods in topological differential geometry'', defended in 1935, was supervised by Élie Cartan. Men of science, like the Spanish mathematician mentioned above, have as objectives of their arduous work the teaching of good quality in mathematics, the formation of good teaching and research centers in mathematics in their country, the education of students -- who continue their work --, the beginning of the formation -- the genesis -- of a mathematical community in their country and the promotion of the internationalization of this mathematical community in formation. These actions also serve as a reference for the creation of projects, goals, and actions by the country's federal administration, to boost the development of science in this country. Therefore, it is necessary for researchers of mathematics created and developed in Spain to recover the memory of the past of this science in their country. Part of this work is done brilliantly in this book by deciding to approach the Spanish mathematician, an international researcher, Germán Ancochea Quevedo, in the form of a tribute.\N\NWe strongly recommend reading this book published by the Real Sociedad Matemática Española, 2021. It contains a prologue and an introduction, and \N\begin{itemize}\N\item[Part 1.] Biography of Germán Ancochea Quevedo. \N\item[Part 2.] Selected correspondence from Germán Ancochea. \N\item[Part 3.] Don Germán: teacher and friend. \N\item[Part 4.] Germán Ancochea and Pobra de Trives. \N\item[Part 5.] Germán Ancochea's work on projectivities, harmonic preservers, and semi-homomorphisms. \N\item[Part 6.] Ancochea's contributions to Hilbert's theorem of zeros. (Hilbert's Nullstellensatz, or zero-locus-theorem. It is a theorem that establishes a fundamental relationship between geometry and algebra. This relationship is the basis of algebraic geometry.) \N\item[Part 7.] The Jordan-Chevalley decomposition into unitary associative algebras. \N\item[Part 8.] Differential forms and Frobenius theorem. \N\item[Part 9.] Disquisitions about Germán Ancochea's speech ``Algebraic structures''. \N\item[Part 10.] Mathematical influence of Germán Ancochea.\N\end{itemize}